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TOPPING, TIMOTHY, son of Rev. Timothy Topping, Rector of Chilton Foliat, Wilts., and Prebendary of Salisbury; b.; adm.; QS 1707; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1712, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1712, aged 18, scholar 1 May 1713, matr. 1713; BA 1715/6; MA 1719; ordained deacon 20 Sep 1719, priest 24 Sep 1721 (both Salisbury); living at Fifield, Hampshire in 1725; Curate, Monxton, Hampshire, in 1736; m. (by 1725) Margaret --- .

Topolski, Daniel, son of Feliks Topolski, artist, and his first wife Marion, d. of William Mason Everall of Wolverhampton; b. 4 June 1945; adm. Sept. 1959 (W); left July 1963; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1964, rowed against Cambridge 1967-8, BA 1967, Dip. Soc. Anthrop. 1968, MA 1972; a BBC producer 1969-73; writer for The Observer and broadcaster 1973-93; rowed in world championships 1975 (silver medal), 1977 (gold medal); in four winning crews; coach of the Univ. of Oxf. Boat Club for fifteen Boat Races (1973-87), winning twelve, incl. a ten-win streak (1976-85); coach to the Great Britain Rowing squad at two Olympic Games (1980 & 1984); Hon. Fellow New Coll. Oxf.; author The Oxford Revival 1985, co-author True-Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny 1989; winner Travel Radio Programme of the Year 1994; m. 1998 Susan Gilmore, actress, d. of James Gilbert; d. 21 Feb. 2015.

TOPLADY, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1749; in school list 1754.

TOPLADY, AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE, son of Maj. Richard Toplady, Army officer, and Catherine, sister of Charles Stanhope Bate (qv); b. 4 Nov 1741 (but IGI gives baptism as at Farnham, Surrey 29 Nov 1740, sic); at school in Apr 1752 (his diary, printed Christian Observer xxx, 552, issue for September 1830); Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 11 Jul 1755; BA 1760; ordained deacon (Bath & Wells) 5 Jun 1762, priest 16 Jun 1764; Curate, Blagdon, Somerset, 1762, afterwards of Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset; Rector of Harpford with Venn Ottery, Devon, 6 May 1766 - 23 Jan 1768; Vicar of Broadhembury, Devon, from 6 Apr 1768; went to live in London for reasons of health 1775; officiated at French Calvinist Reformed Church, Orange Street; a strenuous champion of extreme Calvinism, and engaged in an unseemly dispute on this subject with John Wesley; edited The Gospel Magazine Dec 1775 - Jun 1776; his well-known hymn, Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me, was published in that magazine Oct 1775; author, The Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England, 1774 and other works; d. 11 Aug 1778. DNB.

TOPHAM, ---; b.; at school 1614/5 (Chapter Muniments 33670).

TOOKE, WILLIAM EYTON, eldest son of Thomas Tooke FRS, Spring Gardens, London, partner firm Astell Tooke & Thornton, merchants, economist and historian of prices, and Priscilla, only dau. of Charles Combe MD, London; b. 27 Jan 1806; adm. 18 Jan 1819 (Smedley's); left Christmas 1820; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Mar 1823; BA 1827; d. 27 Jan 1830.