- Coffin (surname)
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Coffin 
Ethnicity English Current region New England
Southern EnglandInformation Earlier spellings Coffyn Place of origin Normandy Connected families Pepys, Boscawen, Raleigh, Giffard, Champernowne, Prideaux, Beaumont, Basset, Chudleigh, Clifford, Gorges, Courtenay, various New England families Estate Portledge Coffin is an Anglo-Norman surname.
The House of Coffin is an ancient English family which originated in Normandy, France. Nearly all trace their ancestry to Sir Richard Coffin, a nobleman from Falaise who was a general in William the Conqueror's army in 1066.[1] The Coffins have held a number of manors, the most notable of which is Portledge in Devon, England. The progenitor of the American Coffins was Tristram Coffin, a Royalist, who came to Newbury, Massachusetts from Devonshire in 1642. He was the original proprietor of Nantucket. The American branch is one of the Boston Brahmin, a group of elite families based in and around Boston.
Some notable Coffins include:
- Bill Coffin, writer of novels and role-playing games
- Charles A. Coffin, cofounder and first President of General Electric corporation
- Charles Edward Coffin, politician from U.S. state of Maryland
- Charles L. Coffin, American engineer and inverter of the arc welding process using a metal electrode
- Clifford Coffin, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
- David Coffin, folk musician
- Edmund Coffin, saddlemaker and equestrian
- Edward Coffin, English Jesuit
- Frank M. Coffin, politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Maine
- Howard A. Coffin, politician from the U.S. state of Michigan
- Howard E. Coffin, automobile engineer and founder of Hudson Motors
- C. Hayden Coffin, English actor
- Henry Sloane Coffin, American theologian
- Isaac Coffin, East India Company Army officer
- Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet, Royal Navy officer
- Jeff Coffin, American saxophonist
- Joshua Coffin, American abolitionist
- Levi Coffin, American educator and abolitionist
- Sir William Coffin, English courtier, favourite of Henry VIII
- Peleg Coffin, Jr., financier and politician from the U.S. state of Massachusetts
- Richard Geoffrey Pine-Coffin, World War II parachute officer in the British Army
- Robert Aston Coffin, English priest
- Robert P. T. Coffin, writer and poet
- Shannen W. Coffin, U.S. lawyer
- Thomas C. Coffin, politician from U.S. state of Idaho
- Thomas Coffin (Canadian politician)
- Tris Coffin, actor
- Walter Coffin, Welsh Member of Parliament and coalowner
- William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman and peace activist
- Any of the Nantucket, Massachusetts Whaling family with that surname.
- Coffin v. United States
Pine-Coffin marshalled arms
See also
References
- Burke's Peerage
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