Background
Kennedy-Good was born in 1915 in Goulburn, New South Wales, where his father was working as a stock and station agent.
Kennedy-Good was born in 1915 in Goulburn, New South Wales, where his father was working as a stock and station agent.
Kennedy-Good was educated at Southland Boys" High School and graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery in 1940.
He was mayor of Lower Hutt from 1970 to 1986. The family later moved to Invercargill, New Zealand, where they ran a butcher"s shop. He served as president of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Dental Association in 1950 and chair of the Dental Health Council in 1952.
Kennedy-Good became involved in local politics through the issue of fluoridation of Lower Hutt"s water supply, which he supported, and was first elected to the Lower Hutt City Council in 1962.
He became mayor in 1970 following the death of incumbent Percy Dowse, and was re-elected to that post at the next five local-body elections, retiring in 1986. He twice stood unsuccessfully as the National Party candidate for the New Zealand parliament in the Hutt electorate: in the 1966 general election against Walter Nash.
And against Trevor Young in the 1968 by-election following Nash"s death. The Kennedy-Good Bridge in Lower Hutt is named in his honour.
In retirement, Kennedy-Good lived at Pāuanui and later Whanagaparāoa.
He died in Auckland in 2005 and was buried at Christ Church Cemetery in Taitā.