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Alexander Worthy Clerk (4 March 1820 – 11 February 1906) was a Jamaican Moravian pioneer missionary, teacher and clergyman who arrived in 1843 in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu in Accra, Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast. He was part of the first group of 24 West Indian missionaries from Jamaica and Antigua who worked under the aegis of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society of Switzerland. Caribbean missionary activity in Africa fit into the broader "Atlantic Missionary Movement" of the diaspora between the 1780s and the 1920s. Shortly after his arrival in Ghana, the mission appointed Clerk as the first Deacon of the Christ Presbyterian Church, Akropong, founded by the first Basel missionary survivor on the Gold Coast, Andreas Riis in 1835, as the organisation's fi

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  • Alexander Worthy Clerk (4 March 1820 – 11 February 1906) was a Jamaican Moravian pioneer missionary, teacher and clergyman who arrived in 1843 in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu in Accra, Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast. He was part of the first group of 24 West Indian missionaries from Jamaica and Antigua who worked under the aegis of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society of Switzerland. Caribbean missionary activity in Africa fit into the broader "Atlantic Missionary Movement" of the diaspora between the 1780s and the 1920s. Shortly after his arrival in Ghana, the mission appointed Clerk as the first Deacon of the Christ Presbyterian Church, Akropong, founded by the first Basel missionary survivor on the Gold Coast, Andreas Riis in 1835, as the organisation's first Protestant church in the country. Alexander Clerk is widely acknowledged and regarded as one of the pioneers of the precursor to the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. As a leader in education in colonial Ghana, he designed curriculum and pedagogy, co-establishing with fellow educators, George Peter Thompson and Catherine Mulgrave, an all-male boarding middle school, the Salem School at Osu in 1843. In 1848, Clerk was an inaugural faculty member at the Basel Mission Seminary, Akropong, now known as the Presbyterian College of Education, where he was an instructor in Biblical studies. The Basel missionaries founded the Akropong seminary and normal school to train teacher-catechists in service of the mission. The college is the second oldest higher educational institution in early modern West Africa after Fourah Bay College in Freetown, Sierra Leone which was established in 1827. Clerk was the father of Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862 – 1961), a Basel-trained theologian, who was elected the first Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1918 to 1932 and co-founded the all boys’ boarding high school, the Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School established in 1938. A. W. Clerk was also the progenitor of the historically important Clerk family from the suburb of Osu in Accra. (en)
  • Alexander Worthy Clerk (4 de marzo de 1820​​​ –11 de febrero de 1906​​​) fue un misionero, maestro y clérigo jamaiquino de Moravia que llegó en 1843 al protectorado danés de Christiansborg, hoy en día en Acra, Ghana, entonces conocida como la Costa de Oro.​​​ Formó parte del primer grupo de 24 misioneros antillanos de Jamaica y Antigua que trabajaron bajo los auspicios de la .​​​ La actividad misionera caribeña en África encaja en el «Movimiento Misionero Atlántico» más amplio de la diáspora entre los años 1780 y 1920.​​​ Poco después de su llegada a Ghana, la misión nombró a Clerk como el primer diácono de la , fundada por el primer misionero sobreviviente de Basilea en la Costa de Oro, , en 1835, como la primera iglesia protestante de la organización en el país.​ Clerk es ampliamente reconocido y considerado como uno de los pioneros del precursor de la . Líder en educación en la Ghana colonial, estableció una escuela intermedia exclusivamente para hombres, la en 1843.​ En 1848, Clerk fue miembro inaugural de la facultad en el Seminario de la Misión de Basilea, Akropong, ahora conocido como el , donde fue instructor de estudios bíblicos.​ Los misioneros de Basilea fundaron el seminario y la escuela normal de Akropong para formar profesores-catequistas al servicio de la misión.​​ La universidad es la segunda institución de educación superior más antigua de África occidental moderna, después de Fourah Bay College en Freetown, Sierra Leona, que se estableció en 1827.​ Clerk fue el padre de (1862 - 1961), un teólogo formado en Basilea, que fue elegido como el primer secretario del sínodo de la Iglesia Presbiteriana de Gold Coast de 1918 a 1932​ y cofundador del internado para chicos, la «Escuela Secundaria de Niños Presbiterianos» establecida en 1938.​ A. W. Clerk también fue el progenitor de la históricamente importante del suburbio de Osu en Acra.​ (es)
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  • Alexander Worthy Clerk (4 March 1820 – 11 February 1906) was a Jamaican Moravian pioneer missionary, teacher and clergyman who arrived in 1843 in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu in Accra, Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast. He was part of the first group of 24 West Indian missionaries from Jamaica and Antigua who worked under the aegis of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society of Switzerland. Caribbean missionary activity in Africa fit into the broader "Atlantic Missionary Movement" of the diaspora between the 1780s and the 1920s. Shortly after his arrival in Ghana, the mission appointed Clerk as the first Deacon of the Christ Presbyterian Church, Akropong, founded by the first Basel missionary survivor on the Gold Coast, Andreas Riis in 1835, as the organisation's fi (en)
  • Alexander Worthy Clerk (4 de marzo de 1820​​​ –11 de febrero de 1906​​​) fue un misionero, maestro y clérigo jamaiquino de Moravia que llegó en 1843 al protectorado danés de Christiansborg, hoy en día en Acra, Ghana, entonces conocida como la Costa de Oro.​​​ Formó parte del primer grupo de 24 misioneros antillanos de Jamaica y Antigua que trabajaron bajo los auspicios de la .​​​ La actividad misionera caribeña en África encaja en el «Movimiento Misionero Atlántico» más amplio de la diáspora entre los años 1780 y 1920.​​​ Poco después de su llegada a Ghana, la misión nombró a Clerk como el primer diácono de la , fundada por el primer misionero sobreviviente de Basilea en la Costa de Oro, , en 1835, como la primera iglesia protestante de la organización en el país.​ Clerk es ampliamente re (es)
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