Toplady
AUGUSTUS MONTA- GUE, an English theologian and hymnol- TORGAU ogist; born in Farnham, Surrey, England, Nov. 4, 1740; was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Dublin. After holding a curacy for some years in Somersetshire, he was presented in 1768 to the vicarage of Broadhembury, Devonshire. His works were published in six volumes in 1825; new edition in one volume, 1837, with a memoir. Though a voluminous writer and a strenuous defender of Calvinism against John Wesley-Toplady is now hardly known except as the author of the hymn "Rock of Ages," one of the most exquisite expressions of evangelical faith and fervor to be found within the compass of the English tongue. A Latin version by Mr. Gladstone "Translations by Lord Lyttleton and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone" (1861) has added fresh beauty to the original. He died in London, Aug. 11, 1778.