Theodore S. Clerk
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Theodore S. Clerk
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| Born | 4 September 1909 Larteh, Gold Coast |
| Died | 1965 (aged 56) Tema, Ghana |
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| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse(s) | Paulina Quist (m. 1948) |
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| Awards | Rutland Prize |
| Projects | City of Tema |
Theodore Shealtiel Clerk (4 September 1909 - 1965) was an urban planner on the Gold Coast and the first formally trained, professionally certified Ghanaian architect. Attaining a few historic firsts in his lifetime, Theodore Clerk became the chief architect, city planner, designer and developer of Tema which is the metropolis of the Tema Harbour, the largest port in Ghana. The first CEO of the Ghanaian parastatal, the Tema Development Corporation as well as a presidential advisor to Ghana's first Head of State, Kwame Nkrumah, T. S. Clerk was also a founding member and the first president of the first post-independent, wholly indigenous and self-governing Ghanaian professional body, the Ghana Institute of Architects (GIA), that had its early beginnings in 1963.
Clerk was born in Larteh in the Akuapem Mountains on 4 September 1909, where his father, Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862 -1961) was stationed as a Basel missionary at the time. His father, a Basel-trained theologian, 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.
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