Herbert Henry Cousins 

Edward Jocelyn Wortley 

George Davis Goode

George Davis Goode was born in Port Royal in 1882. His father, who was a ship’s carpenter and also kept a small grocery shop, made sure that his son, and his daughter, Florence, received as good an education as possible. The children attended the Government Elementary School, and then were taught by tutors paid for by their father. They also received music lessons, at which George did so well that by the age of 15 he was the organist at St Peter’s Church. Later as his ability as an organist became known he was appointed organist at the Kingston Parish Church in 1906, and then at St Michael’s in 1910, where he served until 1960.  In 1909 he married Hilda Dawkins, whom he had met when he was at the Parish Church where she was a member of the choir.
George Goode had also become a competent scientist. After gaining an unpaid job as an apprentice at the Government Laboratory at Hope in 1903, he quickly improved his qualifications; by 1905 he was Second Assistant Chemist in the Sugar Department, and in 1907 started teaching agricultural science. In 1910, when the Farm School was set up, he was appointed as a master there. From 1912 he worked on the clerical side of the Ministry of Agriculture, holding different posts of responsibility until his retirement in 1942.