Quaque, Philip, approximately 1741-1816

LC control no.	n 2009073374
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Quaque, Philip, approximately 1741-1816 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Quaque, Philip, ca. 1741-1816
Associated country	Ghana
Located	England
Birth date	1741
Death date	18161017
Place of birth	Cape Coast (Ghana)
Place of death	Cape Coast (Ghana)
Affiliation	Church of England Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain) Torridzonian Society
Profession or occupation	Clergy Missionaries Educators
Found in	The life and letters of Philip Quaque, the first African Anglican missionary, 2010: ECIP galley (ca. 1741-1816; most prolific writer of African descent in the 18th century; brought to England from Ghana in 1754 to be trained as a missionary) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 14, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Quaque, Philip; Kweku; Quarco; Anglican clergy, missionary, educator; born 1741 in Cape Coast, Ghana; traveled to England for religious training by Anglican educators (1754); learned the English language, culture, studied Anglican catechisms and prepared as a missionary; was ordained as a deacon, then a minister, within the Anglican Church (1765); sailed from England to Cape Coast; was supported and paid by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) and by the slave-trading company that operated around the Cape Coast; his residence was in Cape Coast Castle; failed to convert local African leaders, felt neglected and ignored by the SPG, and believed that the British merchants and governors were godless people; operated his own school (1766-1789); was hired as a primary teacher in a school opened by the Torridzonian Society (1789), a British philanthropist organization; was the first African minister ordained in the Church of England; died 17 October 1816 in Cape Coast Castle, Ghana)