Coffin (surname)
| Coffin | |
|---|---|
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| Ethnicity | English, French |
| Current region |
New England Southern England Northern France Eastern Canada |
| Earlier spellings | Coffyn, de Couffin |
| Place of origin | Normandy |
| Connected families | Pepys, Boscawen, Raleigh, Giffard, Champernowne, Prideaux, Beaumont, Basset, Vernon, Chudleigh, Clifford, Gorges, Courtenay, Manners, 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.[1] The Coffins have held a number of manors, the most notable of which is Portledge in Devon, England, which they held for over nine centuries. The progenitor of the American Coffins was Tristram Coffin, a Royalist, who came to 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. Many American Coffins are or were Quakers.
List of notable people surnamed Coffin
- Alexander J. Coffin (1794–1868), New York politician
- Bill Coffin, writer of novels and role-playing games
- Charles Coffin, French writer, educator and Jansenist
- 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 inventor of the arc welding process using a metal electrode
- Clifford Coffin, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
- David Coffin, folk musician
- Dionis Coffin Riggs, writer and poet from Martha's Vineyard
- Edmund Coffin, saddlemaker and equestrian
- Edward Coffin, English Jesuit
- Frank M. Coffin, politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Maine
- Frank Trenholm Coffyn, aviation pioneer
- George Coffin (1903-1994), American bridge player
- 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
- James Henry Coffin, American mathematician and meteorologist
- Jeff Coffin, American saxophonist
- Joshua Coffin, American abolitionist
- Levi Coffin, American educator and abolitionist
- Lucretia Coffin, American antislavery and women's rights advocate
- Marian Cruger Coffin, American landscape architect
- Nathaniel Coffin, loyalist and Canadian politician
- Peleg Coffin, Jr., financier and politician from the U.S. state of Massachusetts
- Pierre Coffin, film director
- 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
- Tristram Potter Coffin, American folklorist and ballad scholar
- Velma Elizabeth Coffin,M.D., first woman surgeon in the State of Iowa
- Walter Coffin, Welsh Member of Parliament and coalowner
- Sir William Coffin, English courtier, favourite of Henry VIII
- William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman and peace activist
- Any of the Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard Whaling family with that surname.
- Coffin v. United States
Pine-Coffin marshalled arms
See also
References
- Burke's Peerage