Augustine David Crake (1836–1890) was an English cleric and author, known for devotional works, and for juvenile historical fiction that has been compared to the books of John Mason Neale.
[1] The eldest son of Jesse Crake, he was born on 1 October 1836 at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, where his father kept a middle-class school.
[1] Crake was ordained deacon by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in 1865, and was appointed second master and chaplain of the Church of England middle-class school of All Saints', Bloxham, near Banbury, a position which he kept from 1865 to 1878.
[1] Crake was the author of a long series of historical fiction works, about the church in Britain, using Oxfordshire and Berkshire settings; they were based on stories he had told at Bloxham school.
His major devotional books and stories were:[1] Crake edited Offices for the Hours of Prime, Sext, and Compline; with special Antiphons and Chapters for the Seasons of the Church, Oxford, 1871.