Edward Winter Clark

Reverend
Edward Winter Clark
Personal life
Born25 February 1830
Died18 March, 1913
SpouseMary Mead Clark
Religious life
ReligionChristianity
ChurchAmerican Baptist Foreign Mission Society

Edward Winter Clark (E. W. Clark) (25 February, 1830 – 18 March, 1913) was an American missionary. Clark is known for his pioneering missionary work in Nagaland and for his work on transcribing the spoken Ao language into a written script. Clark created the first bilingual dictionary of the Ao language and along with his wife, Mary Mead Clark, and set up the first school in the Naga hills region of North-East India. Mary Clark documented their experience in Assam and the Naga Hills in A Corner in India.

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