Nicholas Timothy Clerk
Gold Coast theologian, minister and missionary (1862 –1961) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nicholas Timothy Clerk (28 October 1862[1][2][3] – 16 August 1961[4]) was a Protestant theologian, clergyman and pioneering missionary of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society in southeast colonial Ghana.[4] His father was the Jamaican Moravian missionary Alexander Worthy Clerk (1820 – 1906),[4] who worked extensively on the Gold Coast with the Basel Mission and co-founded in 1843 the Salem School, a Presbyterian boarding middle school for boys.[5] Born on the Gold Coast, N. T. Clerk was elected the first Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast, in effect, the chief ecclesiastical officer, equivalent to the chief administrator, leading the overall strategic operations of the national church organisation, a position he held from 1918 to 1932.[4][6][7][8] A staunch advocate of secondary education, Nicholas Timothy Clerk became a founding father of the all-boys Presbyterian boarding school in Ghana, the Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School, established in 1938.[9][10] As Synod Clerk, he pushed vigorously for and was instrumental in turning the original idea of a church mission high school into reality.[9][10]
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Born | (1862-10-28)28 October 1862 |
Died | 16 August 1961(1961-08-16) (aged 98) Accra, Ghana |
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Anna Alice Meyer
(m. 1891; died 1934) |
Children | 9, including Carl, Jane, Theodore and Matilda |
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Ordination | Korntal, 1888 |
Consecration | 5 July 1888, Basel Minster |