THOMPSON, Augustus Charles, clergyman, born in Goshen, Connecticut, 30 April, 1812. He entered Yale with the class of 1835, but feeble health compelled him to leave before graduation. The college gave him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1841. He was graduated at the Hartford theological seminary in 1838, studied in the University of Berlin in 1838-'9, and on 27 July, 1842, was ordained pastor of a Congregational church at Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he still remains. He was associated with Reverend Dr. Rufus Anderson in a deputation to the missions of the American board in India in 1854-'5, and was a delegate to the London missionary conference of 1878. Amherst gave him the degree of D.D. in 1860. Dr. Thompson has lectured on foreign missions at Andover seminary in 1877-'80, at Boston university in 1882, and at Hartford theological seminary in 1885-'6, and has published "Songs in the Night" (Boston, 1845) ; " Young Martyrs" (2d ed., 1848); "Lambs Fed" (1849; translation into Mahrathi, Bombay, 1853) ; " Last Hours " (1851) ; " The Poor Widow, a Memorial of Mrs. Anna J. Waters" (1854; translation into Tamil, Jaffua, Ceylon, 1855) ; " The Better Land " (1854) ; "The Yoke in Youth: a Memorial of H. M. Hill" (1856);" Gathered Lilies" (1858); "Eliot Sabbath-School Memorial" (1859); " Morning Hours in Patmos " (1860) ; "Lyra Celestis" (1863); "The Mercy-Seat" (1863); " Our Little Ones " (1867); " Christus Consolator" (1867); " Seeds and Sheaves" (1868); "Discourse Commemorative of Reverend Rufus Anderson, D.D." (1880); " Moravian Missions" (New York, 1882) ; "Happy New Year " (1883) ; and "Future Probation and Foreign Missions."