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    The document provides biographies of three important figures in the history of education in Ghana: 1) Thomas Birch Freeman, who was the first missionary to reach Asante in 1839. He established nine schools in Ghana by 1841, including three girls' schools. 2) Philip Quacoe, who was the first African to be ordained in the Church of England. He established a school in Cape Coast to educate multiracial children. 3) John Mensah Sarbah, who helped establish the first secondary school in Ghana in 1876. He also founded scholarships and rescued his old school from closing down. Sarbah and Casely Hayford are generally credited with the growth of secondary

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    The document provides biographies of three important figures in the history of education in Ghana: 1) Thomas Birch Freeman, who was the first missionary to reach Asante in 1839. He established nine schools in Ghana by 1841, including three girls' schools. 2) Philip Quacoe, who was the first African to be ordained in the Church of England. He established a school in Cape Coast to educate multiracial children. 3) John Mensah Sarbah, who helped establish the first secondary school in Ghana in 1876. He also founded scholarships and rescued his old school from closing down. Sarbah and Casely Hayford are generally credited with the growth of secondary

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    The document provides biographies of three important figures in the history of education in Ghana: 1) Thomas Birch Freeman, who was the first missionary to reach Asante in 1839. He established nine schools in Ghana by 1841, including three girls' schools. 2) Philip Quacoe, who was the first African to be ordained in the Church of England. He established a school in Cape Coast to educate multiracial children. 3) John Mensah Sarbah, who helped establish the first secondary school in Ghana in 1876. He also founded scholarships and rescued his old school from closing down. Sarbah and Casely Hayford are generally credited with the growth of secondary

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    The document provides biographies of three important figures in the history of education in Ghana: 1) Thomas Birch Freeman, who was the first missionary to reach Asante in 1839. He established nine schools in Ghana by 1841, including three girls' schools. 2) Philip Quacoe, who was the first African to be ordained in the Church of England. He established a school in Cape Coast to educate multiracial children. 3) John Mensah Sarbah, who helped establish the first secondary school in Ghana in 1876. He also founded scholarships and rescued his old school from closing down. Sarbah and Casely Hayford are generally credited with the growth of secondary

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    THOMAS BIRCH FREEMAN

    Rev Thomas Birch freeman was born on 9th December 1809 in England. His
    mother was an English woman and his father was an African. In 1831, he
    married a girl called Elizabeth and sailed for Cape Coast where the English
    missionaries who had been there before him, had died.
    He arrived in Gold Coast in the year 1838. He was said to be the first
    missionary to reach Asante in January 1839. While in Kumasi, he paid an
    official visit to the Asantehene and upon request the Asantehene gave him a
    plot of land for the building of a church.

    In 1841, he established nine schools in the Gold Coast out of which three
    were girls schools. It should be noted that the school masters of all the nine
    schools were appointed by the Wesleyan missionary body under Thomas
    Birch Freeman. Through the good foundation he laid, by 1880 the Wesleyan
    mission had more schools than the other missions in the Gold Coast. The
    Wesleyan mission had eighty-three schools with more than three thousand
    pupils.
    Thomas Birch Freeman died in the Gold Coast 10th August , 1890.
    Indeed, Gold Coast had lost an important diamond.

    PHILIP QUACOE
    Philip Quacoe was born in 1791. He was a native of Cape Coast. He
    was trained as a priest and was one of the first men to bring education to
    the people of Gold Coast. The society for the propagation of the Gospel
    (S.P.G) through the initiation of one of its members, Rev. Thomas Thompson
    made arrangement for one boy/Philip Quacoe to be sent England. He was to
    be trained as a priest. He was the First African to be ordained in the church
    of England to be educated. He was baptized in London. He married an
    English woman called Catherine Blunt.
    As a school master, he showed exemplary administration work which
    helped in the education of many people in the Gold Coast. He established
    his own school in his house in Cape Coast so as to educate molato children
    where growing in his large numbers. One of his products John Smith later
    became the headmaster of Cape Coast. As a priest and a missionary he
    educated many Gold Coasters to see Christ and helped to free them from
    their ignorance. He also helped to revive the Anglican church which later
    opened schools in the country.
    Philip Quacoe died in 1816. A visitor to courtyard of Cape Coast castle
    will find a grave mark on the ground with the letters P.Q. The two letters
    P.Q. refer to Philip Quacoe who lived from 1741 to 1816 and went to
    England to learn how to free men from ignorance.

    JOHN MENSAH SARBAH


    John Mensah Sarbah was born at Cape Coast on 3rd June 1864. He had
    his primary education at the old Wesleyan Boys High School in Cape Coast.
    After that he went to England to attend school at Taunton school now
    Queens college. In 1884, he went to school at Lincolns Inn to study law at
    the age of twenty. He was called to the Bar in 1887.
    He founded an Dutton Sarbah scholarship in 1892 at Taunton school.
    He rescued his old school, the Wesleyan Boys High School from being close
    down, when the Wesleyan mission wanted to close to close it. He became a
    legal advisor to the school and board member but he never charged any
    money. He renamed the school (the collegiate school). Together with his
    trusted friend William Edward Sam, Sarbah promoted the role in the
    establishment of the first secondary school in Ghana in 1876 at Cape Coast
    He sometimes use his pocket money to pay salaries of the members of staff
    of Mfantsipim school when it was first established. He took part in the
    establishment of Fante National Education Fund which was to assist new
    schools struggling for their existence. Finally Sarbah also founded a educate
    scholarship at Mfantsipim school and by his patriotic work, of to educate
    many sons this country some whom are now holding key positions in
    Ghana`s public service he died in 1910.
    Because of this, it is generally agreed that the growth of secondary
    school education in Ghana is due to the efforts of John Mensah Sarbah and
    casely Hayford in the late 19th century.

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