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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.