LEFT £87,952
school stqry autmor - Probably the best-lcnown writer of school slories of his time, Captain Francis Desmond Talbot Goke, retired, of Weslerfleld, Richmond Road, Worl.hing, was stated to have left property value £87,952, with net personalty £78,100. Gaptain Goke was author of "The Bending of a Twig," "The Worm," "The Pedestal," and "The Golden Key," and of a "crook" play, "One Hour of Life." For some years he was master at Clayesmore School, near Winchester, and he left a -subsiantial sum to 'the governing body of the school, "in recognition of its services to education in England."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 12, 5 September 1931, Page 6
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