| 词条 | Harry Sawyerr |
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|honorific-prefix = Hon |name = Harry Sawyerr |honorific-suffix = |image = |alt = |caption = |constituency_MP = Osu-Klottey |parliament = Ghana |majority = |term_start = 1979 |term_end = 1981 |predecessor = |successor = |order 2 = |office2 = Minister for Education |term_start2 = 1993 |term_end2 = 1997 |president2 = Jerry Rawlings |predecessor2 = Mary Grant |successor2 = Esi Sutherland-Addy |constituency2 = |majority2 = |order3 = |office3 = Minister for Transport and Communications |term_start3 = 1979 |term_end3 = 1981 |president3 = Hilla Limann |predecessor3 = |successor3 = |constituency3 = |majority3 = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1926|04|25}} |birth_place = Abokobi, Accra, Ghana | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2013|11|08|1926|04|25}} | death_place = Accra, Ghana | restingplace = | restingplacecoordinates = |nationality = Ghanaian |party = United National Convention |otherparty = |spouse = |partner = |relations = |children = | parents = |residence = |alma_mater = |occupation = |profession = Quantity surveyor |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |religion = |signature = |signature_alt = |website = |footnotes = }} Harry Sawyerr (25 April 1926 – 8 November 2013) was a Ghanaian politician and quantity surveyor. Sawyerr was the first person to be president of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors. He served two terms spanning 1969 to 1971.[1] He was among the founders of the United National Convention formed to contest the 1979 parliamentary election. He however left the party to stand as an independent candidate and became a Member of Parliament in the Third Republic Parliament.[2] BackgroundHarry Sawyerr was born on 25 April 1926 in Abokobi, Accra, in the Ga East District to Kwao Sawyerr and Fredericka Naa Awula Akua Lokko.[3] He was educated at the Presbyterian Primary School at Abokobi (1932), continuing in 1938 to the Salem School at Osu (now known as Osu Presbyterian Boys' School), then at the Accra Academy (1942–46). He entered Achimota College in 1947, but his degree studies ended on the sudden death of his father that year, due to lack of funds, and he became a Learner Valuer at the Lands Department from 1951 to 1953.[3] He subsequently studied estate management in England at the University College of Estate Management (1953–55),[3] becoming a certified associate of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, in England.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} He worked as a District Valuer at the Lands Department in Accra (1955–58), then left public service to establish his private consultancy from 1958 to 1962. From 1962 to 1963 he was City Valuer at Kumasi City Council and worked as Chief Federal Lands Officer in the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 1963 to 1967, the first black Chief Federal Lands Officer in Nigeria.[3] Sawyerr served as Minister for Transport and Communications from 1979 to 1981 in the Limann government. He also served as Minister for Education in the Rawlings government from 1993 to 1997.[4] Harry Sawyerr was a Freemason, belonging to the District Grand Lodge of Ghana under the United Grand Lodge of England.[5] Death and funeralHe died on 8 November 2013 in Accra,[6] aged 87.[7] His funeral attracted several government officials and dignitaries.[8] He was buried at the Basel Mission Cemetery in Osu.[9] Awards and recognitionHarry Sawyer was decorated with the Companion of the Order of the Volta, the highest award in Ghana, by the then President John Evans Atta Mills[10] There are prizes at the University of Ghana Medical School in his name.[11] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ghisonline.org/21/118/Past-Presidents-of-the-Institution.html|title=Ghana Institute of Surveyors - Past Presidents|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Ghana Institute of Surveyors|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226023720/http://www.ghisonline.org/21/118/Past-Presidents-of-the-Institution.html|archivedate=26 February 2011|deadurl=yes|accessdate=28 May 2011|df=}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.modernghana.com/news/118084/1/rawlings-mojo-obed-asamoah-2-other-unc-wisemen.html |title=Rawlings Mojo, Obed Asamoah & 2 Other UNC Wisemen |accessdate=28 May 2011 |publisher=ModernGhana.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201061542/http://modernghana.com/news/118084/1/rawlings-mojo-obed-asamoah-2-other-unc-wisemen.html |archive-date=1 February 2010 |dead-url=no |df=dmy-all }} 3. ^1 2 3 "Commemorative Tribute to Henry Romulus Sawyerr (a.k.a Harry Sawyerr)" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916210407/http://www.parliament.gh/publications/30/722 |date=2016-09-16 }}, The Hansard, Official Report for 18 December 2013, Parliament of Ghana. 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.adeanet.org/adeaPortal/adea/publications/docs/Country%20led%20ghana-eng.pdf |title=Country-led Aid Coordination in Ghana |accessdate=28 May 2011 |publisher=Association for the Development of Education in Africa |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330105401/http://www.adeanet.org/adeaPortal/adea/publications/docs/Country%20led%20ghana-eng.pdf |archivedate=30 March 2012 |df= }} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://masonictimesafrica.blogspot.com/2014/08/special-conference-on-freemasonry-in.html|title=Special conference on Freemasonry in Accra, Ghana|last=A|access-date=2018-11-27}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Harry Sawyerr is dead|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=291449|work=General News|publisher=Ghana Home Page|accessdate=10 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110203648/http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=291449|archive-date=10 November 2013|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}} 7. ^Enoch Darfah Frimpong, "Celebrating Grandpa Harry Sawyerr at 87: Has paid his due to Ghana and the NDC"{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Graphic Online, 25 April 2013. 8. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.ghananewsagency.org/social/hundreds-pay-last-respect-to-late-harry-sawyerr--68833|title=Hundreds pay last respect to late Harry Sawyerr|access-date=2017-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203082900/http://www.ghananewsagency.org/social/hundreds-pay-last-respect-to-late-harry-sawyerr--68833|archive-date=2017-12-03|dead-url=no|df=}} 9. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.ghananewsagency.org/social/hundreds-pay-last-respect-to-late-harry-sawyerr--68833|title=Hundreds pay last respect to late Harry Sawyerr|access-date=2017-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203082900/http://www.ghananewsagency.org/social/hundreds-pay-last-respect-to-late-harry-sawyerr--68833|archive-date=2017-12-03|dead-url=no|df=}} 10. ^{{cite web|title=Harry Sawyer Profile|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/people/person.php?ID=1237|website=|publisher=Ghanaweb|accessdate=15 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020061104/http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/people/person.php?ID=1237|archive-date=20 October 2014|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}} 11. ^{{cite web |url=http://beckykwei.blogspot.com/2011/04/dr-vera-fosu-best-all-round-student.html |title=Dr Vera Fosu — Best All-round Student |accessdate=28 May 2011 |work=Tsotsoo's journal |publisher=Becky Kwei |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306213420/http://beckykwei.blogspot.com/2011/04/dr-vera-fosu-best-all-round-student.html |archive-date=6 March 2014 |dead-url=no |df=dmy-all }} {{s-start}}{{s-par|gh}}{{s-bef|before=New Parliament}}{{s-ttl|title=MP for Osu-Klottey |years=1979 – 81}}{{s-aft|after=Parliament abolished }}{{s-off}}{{s-bef|before=}}{{s-ttl|title=Minister for Transport and Communications |years=1979 – 81}}{{s-aft|after= }}{{s-bef|before=Mary Grant}}{{s-ttl|title=Minister for Education |years=1993 – 97}}{{s-aft|after=Esi Sutherland-Addy}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Sawyerr, Harry}} 13 : 2013 deaths|Alumni of the Accra Academy|National Democratic Congress (Ghana) politicians|United National Convention politicians|Ghanaian MPs 1979–81|20th-century Ghanaian people|Education ministers of Ghana|Transport ministers of Ghana|Communication ministers of Ghana|Place of birth missing|1926 births|Recipients of the Order of the Volta|Quantity surveyors |
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