Augustus Montague Toplady

Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778) was an English Anglican clergyman, Calvinist controversialist and hymn-writer, vicar of Broadhembury in Devon.

His hymn Rock of Ages appeared in the Gospel Magazine in 1775 and, as A Prayer, living and dying, in his Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship (1776).