Emmanuel Charles Quist
Gold Coast Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 6 March 1951 – 5 March 1957 | |
Preceded by | New Position |
Succeeded by | Position abolished on Independence |
Personal details | |
Born | 10 March or 21 May 1880 Educator |
Sir Emmanuel Charles Quist,
Biography
Early life and ancestry
Emmanuel Charles Quist was born in 1880 in Christiansborg, Accra.[3] He was the son of the Rev. Carl Quist (1843 – 99), a Basel Mission minister from Osu, Accra.[3][10] His Ga-Danish mother, Paulina Richter, descended from the Royal House of Anomabo.[3][10] Richter's ancestor was Heinrich Richter (1785–1849), a prominent Euro-African from Osu.[11][12] Richter's descendants also included Philip Christian Richter (b. 1903), an academic and Presbyterian minister and Ernest Richter (b. 1922), a diplomat.[13] Carl Quist was also of Ga-Danish ancestry and a son of one of the three Kvist brothers (anglicised to Quist) who came to the Gold Coast via Holland in 1840.[3][10][14] The brothers, all ethnic Danes, settled separately in Cape Coast, Christiansborg and Keta.[3] E. C. Quist was also related to the historically notable Clerk family of Accra, through his cousin, Anna Alice Meyer (1873 – 1934) whose husband was the theologian and Basel missionary, Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862 – 1961).[14][15]
Education and career
From 1889 to 1896, E. C. Quist had his primary and middle school education at the Basel Mission Grammar School and the boys' boarding school, the
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Personal life
On 27 June 1929, Quist married Dinah Nita Bruce of Christiansborg, Accra.
Death and state funeral
Upon Quist's death in 1959, the Ghanaian government accorded him a state funeral with full military honours.[3] After the ceremony at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Osu, his body was interred at the Osu Cemetery in Accra.[3]
Honours and legacy
Quist was created
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