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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.

TOOKE, THOMAS, brother of William Eyton Tooke (qv); b. 31 Jan 1810; adm. 3 Apr 1823 (Stikeman's); left 1825; a Director, Bank of England, from 1843; one of HM Lieutenants for City of London; d. 25 Dec 1857.

TOOKE, JOHN HORNE, third son of John Horne, Newport Street, Westminster, poulterer, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); b. 25 Jun 1736; at school in 1744 (DNB); at Eton Coll. 1746-53; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 12 Jan 1753/4, matr. Mich. 1754, scholar; BA 1758; MA 1771; adm. Inner Temple 9 Nov 1756, left 9 Feb 1759; Usher at a school at Blackheath; ordained deacon (Canterbury) 23 Sep 1759, priest (Salisbury) 23 Nov 1760; Perpetual Curate of St. Lawrence, New Brentford, Middlesex 26 Sep 1760-73; author of pamphlet, The Petition of an Englishman, 1765, violently defending John Wilkes; supported Wilkes at Middlesex election 1768; fined £400 by Lord Mansfield for libelling George Onslow, but the verdict was set aside on appeal 17 Apr 1771; formedthe Society for supporting the Bill of Rights 1771; quarrelled with Wilkes and formed the Constitutional Society 1771; became unpopular and burnt in effigy by the mob Jul 1771; resigned living 1773; summoned to bar of House of Commons for a violent attack on the Speaker in the Public Advertiser 1774; fined and imprisoned for publishing in the newspapers an appeal for subscriptions for the American colonists 1778; wished to resume legal career, but was refused call to the bar 8 Jun 1779, on the ground that he was still in holy orders; joined Society for Constitutional Information 1780; assumed additional surname of Tooke at request of his friend William Tooke, Purley, Surrey; contested Westminster 1790 and 1796; tried for high treason before Chief Justice Eyre 5-22 Nov 1794, but acquitted; MP Old Sarum 14 Feb 1801-2; in consequence of his return, an Act was passed declaring clergymen ineligible for election in the future; a learned philologist and a staunch upholder of public justice and popular rights; author, Epea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of Purley, 1786-1805, and other works; d. 18 Mar 1812. DNB.

TOODE, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1568-9 (tutor, the Dean) (Chapter Muniments 54018).