Nicholas Timothy Clerk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nicholas Timothy Clerk

Gold Coast theologian, minister and missionary

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1862

Place of Birth: Aburi, Eastern Region, Ghana

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1961

Profession: missionary

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Nicholas Timothy Clerk (28 October 1862 – 16 August 1961) was a Gold Coast-born theologian, clergyman and pioneering missionary of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society who worked extensively in southeast colonial Ghana.
His father was the Jamaican Moravian missionary Alexander Worthy Clerk (1820 – 1906), who worked on the Gold Coast with the Basel Mission and co-founded in 1843 the Salem School, a Presbyterian boarding middle school for boys.
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Clerk was elected the first Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast, in effect, the chief administrator and overall strategy lead of the national church organisation, a position he held from 1918 to 1932.
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.
As Synod Clerk, he pushed vigorously for and was instrumental in turning the original idea of a church mission high school into reality.