Biddle’ [q. v.], 1789, 12mo; 1791, 12mo; 1805, 8vo, still the best book on the subject. 3. ‘The History of … Taunton,’ 1791, 4to (plates); enlarged by James Savage [q. v.], 1822, 8vo. 4. Neal's ‘History of the Puritans,’ new edition, 1793–7, 8vo, 5 vols.; with ‘Memoirs of Neal,’ notes, and much new matter on baptists (from Crosby), and on Friends (from Gough); the reprint, 1822, 8vo, 5 vols., is rearranged. 5. ‘Life’ of Samuel Morton Savage [q. v.], prefixed to ‘Sermons,’ 1796, 8vo. 6. ‘Biographical Preface’ to ‘Sermons’ by Thomas Twining [q. v.], 1801, 8vo. 7. ‘Memoirs’ of Charles Bulkley [q. v.], prefixed to vol. iii. of ‘Notes on the Bible,’ 1802, 8vo. 8. ‘Memoirs of … Samuel Bourn,’ 1808, 8vo; a storehouse of minor biographies. 9. ‘Memoir of … Edward Elwall [q. v.] ’, Bilston, 1808, 12mo. 10. ‘An Historical View of … Protestant Dissenters from the Revolution to the Accession of Queen Anne,’ 1814, 8vo; a good sequel to Neal; a second volume, to the death of George II, was projected, but left unfinished. He contributed numerous biographies to the ‘Protestant Dissenter's Magazine’ and to the ‘Monthly Repository,’ published funeral sermons, and contributed to the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ and the ‘Monthly Magazine.’ Letters by him are in ‘Memoir of Robert Aspland,’ 1850. His portrait was three times engraved.
[Funeral Sermons by Kentish and Israel Worsley, 1815; Memoir by Kentish in Monthly Repository, 1815, pp. 665 sq.; see also 1806 p. 670, 1815 p. 523, 1816 p. 653, 1819 p. 81, 1824 p. 179; Protestant Dissenter's Mag. 1798, p. 127; Wreford's Nonconformity in Birmingham, 1832, pp. 59, 89 sq.; Rutt's Memoirs of Priestley, 1832, i. 152, 303, 358, 386; Murch's Hist. of Presb. and Gen. Bapt. Churches in West of England, 1835, pp. 196, 203, 335; Merridew's Catalogue of Engraved Warwickshire Portraits, 1848, p. 65; Beale's Old Meeting House, Birmingham, 1882; Gardiner's Admission Registers of St. Paul's School, 1884, p. 88.]
TOULMIN SMITH, JOSHUA (1816-1869), publicist and constitutional lawyer. [See Smith.]
TOUNSON. [See Townson.]
TOUP, JONATHAN (1713–1785)—in later years he latinised his name as Joannes—philologer and classical editor, came from a family resident for several generations in Dorset. His father, Jonathan Toup, exhibitioner of Wadham College, Oxford, 1703–4, afterwards curate and lecturer of St. Ives, Cornwall (bur. at St. Ives on 4 July 1721), married Prudence (1691–1773), daughter of John Busvargus of St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall. After Toup's death Prudence married as her second husband John Keigwin, vicar of Landrake and St. Erney, who died in 1761, and left his widow sole executrix. They had two daughters, Prudence and Anne. Charles Worth, attorney of St. Ives, married, first, Mary, full sister of Toup; secondly, Prudence (b. 1727), his half-sister. The other half-sister, Ann (who died on 28 March 1814, aged 83), married John Blake. It was an imprudent marriage, and after his death in 1763 the widow and her three daughters lived with Toup. All the three daughters married into the family of Nicolas, and the eldest son of the youngest sister, who alone had issue, was John Toup Nicolas [q. v.], to whom came Toup's property.
Toup was born at St. Ives in December 1713, and baptised on 5 Jan. 1713–14. On the mother's second marriage her brother, William Busvargus, last male of that family, adopted the child as his own. Jonathan was educated at St. Ives grammar school, and afterwards by the Rev. John Gurney, who kept a private school at St. Merryn in Cornwall. From 15 March 1732–3 to 13 Nov. 1739 he was battellar of Exeter College, Oxford (Boase, Ex. Coll. Commoners, p. 323), where John Upton was his tutor during his complete course (Gent. Mag. 1790, ii. 792). He graduated B.A. on 14 Oct. 1736, but did not proceed to the degree of M.A. until 1756, when he took it from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon on 6 March 1736, and three days later was licensed to the curacy of Philleigh in his native county. This he served for little more than two years, and on 29 May 1738 he was licensed as curate of Buryan, also in Cornwall, having proceeded to priest's orders on the previous day. Through the influence or purchase of his uncle Busvargus, he was presented on 28 July 1750 to the rectory of St. Martin's-by-Looe, and held it until his death. This uncle died without issue in June 1751, and Toup's mother came into possession of all his property, which passed at her death to Toup.
In his remote parish Toup pursued severe classical studies without interruption. The first part of his great work, the ‘Emendationes in Suidam,’ came out in 1760, the second in 1764, and the third in 1766. They were followed by an ‘Epistola Critica’ to Bishop Warburton, in which Toup indulged in some sneers at Bishop Lowth, and flattered Warburton for his assimilation of learning, both sacred and profane. This was published in 1767, and a volume of ‘Curæ novissimæ
