Carl Henry Clerk

The Reverend Carl Henry Clerk
Carl Henry Clerk, New York City, 1926
Born	(1895-01-04)4 January 1895 Aburi, Gold Coast
Died	28 May 1982(1982-05-28) (aged 87) Accra, Ghana
Nationality	British subject (1895-1957) Ghanaian (1957-1982)
Education	Basel Mission Seminary, Akropong Tuskegee University (B.Sc.) Columbia University (M.A.)
Occupation	Clergyman Agricultural Educationist Administrator Journalist Editor
Spouse(s)	Juliana N. Nikoi (m. 1917; d. 1918) Martha Ayorkor Quao (m. 1929)
Children	Nicholas T. Clerk (son) George C. Clerk (son)
Parent(s)	Nicholas Timothy Clerk (father) Anna Alice Meyer (mother)
Relatives	Clerk family Emmanuel Charles Quist (uncle) Nathan Quao (brother-in-law)
Church	Presbyterian Church of Ghana
Ordained	Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, 1944
Offices held	Manager, Presbyterian Schools (1935 - 1944) Fourth Synod Clerk, Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (1950 - 1954) Editor, Christian Messenger (1960 - 1963)

Carl Henry Clerk (4 January 1895 - †28 May 1982) was a Ghanaian agricultural educationist, administrator, journalist, editor and church minister who was elected the Fourth Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1950 to 1954. Between 1960 and 1963, he was also the Editor of the Christian Messenger, established by the Basel Mission in 1883, as the newspaper of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana.

Carl Henry Clerk was born at Aburi, about forty-five minutes north-east of the capital city, Accra, on 4 January 1895. He was born in the home of his paternal grandfather, Alexander Worthy Clerk (1820 - 1906). His father was Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862 - 1961), a Basel-trained theologian and missionary who was the First Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1918 to 1932.N. T. Clerk was a founding father of the all boys’ boarding high school, Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School established in 1938. His mother, Anna Alice Meyer (1873 - 1934) was of Ga-Dangme and Danish descent.