A. C. (Augustus Charles) Thompson

Born in 1812, Augustus Charles Thompson was an American Baptist minister and religious author. Records connected with his published works and church anniversaries show him serving as pastor of the Eliot Church in Boston, where he became known as a preacher, lecturer, and writer.

Thompson wrote across several popular devotional subjects of his time. His books include The Better Land; or, The Believer's Journey and Future Home, Moravian Missions: Twelve Lectures, Protestant Missions: Their Rise and Early Progress, Lyra Coelestis, and Songs in the Night, along with sermons, memorial addresses, and other religious works. Taken together, they suggest an author especially interested in Christian consolation, missions, and sacred verse.

He died in 1901. Although detailed biographical information is not easy to confirm from the sources available here, the surviving catalog records and digitized editions of his work show that he had a long publishing life and a steady place in nineteenth-century Baptist literature.