Alexander Worthy Clerk
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 A. ClerkAlexander ClerkBasel MissionCarl Christian ReindorfCarl Henry ClerkCatherine MulgraveChristianity in GhanaClerk (surname)Clerk familyDavid AsanteGeorge C. ClerkGeorge Peter ThompsonGottlieb Ababio AdomHesse familyList of Christian missionariesList of GhanaiansList of children of clergyMatilda J. ClerkNicholas T. ClerkNicholas Timothy ClerkPauline M. ClerkPresbyterian Church of GhanaRegina HesseRose Ann MillerSalem School, OsuTheodore S. ClerkTheophilus Opoku
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Alexander Worthy Clerk
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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