John Clarke
| Revd. John Clarke | |||||||
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| File:Clarke, John.jpg | |||||||
| Born | 1802 | ||||||
| Died | 1879 | ||||||
| Residence | Savanna La Mar Jamaica | ||||||
| Occupation |
church academic | ||||||
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Rev., ethnological linguist
Notes From Elsewhere
As an advance party, the Reverend John Clarke (1802-1879), a BMS missionary to Jamaica and George K. Prince (d. 1865), a medical doctor and former slave owner, sailed for West Africa. On January 1, 1841 they arrived at Clarence on the island of Fernando Po. This was to have been a stopping-off point en route to the Nigerian interior, but Clarke and Prince received a warm reception from the head of the British naval squadron. Freed slaves and other black immigrants pleaded for the establishment of a Christian presence. Clarke and Prince advised that the BMS respond positively, thus providing a catalyst for an undertaking that ended in 1858 when the BMS transferred its base to Cameroon.
Publications
External Publications
House Publications
on some drawings from Sierra Leone [assuming it is this mr clarke]
Related Material Details
RAI Material
MS 4 A vocabulary or dictionary of the Fernandian tongue, 1854
MS 5 African dialects, Fernando Po, 1841
Other Material
drawings in Anthropological Society Album at PRM
