Coffin (surname)
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Arms of Coffin of Portledge, Alwington, Devon: Azure, three bezants between eight crosses crosslet or | |
| Ethnicity | English |
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| Current region |
South West England New England Eastern Canada |
| Earlier spellings | Coffyn |
| Place of origin | Devon, England |
| Estate | Portledge |
Pine-Coffin quartered arms
The House of Coffin is an ancient English family which originated in Devonshire. 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 persons with the surname Coffin
- Alexander J. Coffin (1794–1868), New York politician
- Bill Coffin, writer of novels and role-playing games
- Charles Coffin (writer), 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
- C. 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
- Edmund Coffin, saddle maker 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 Mott, née Coffin, American antislavery and women's rights advocate
- Marian Cruger Coffin, American landscape architect
- Nathaniel Coffin, loyalist and Canadian politician
- Owen Coffin, a teenager on the whaler Essex who was cannibalized
- Peleg Coffin, Jr., financier and politician from the U.S. state of Massachusetts
- Pierre Coffin, film director
- Richard Coffin (1456-1523), sheriff of Devon in 1511
- 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 Coffin (settler), notable settler of Nantucket, Massachusetts, of whom most American Coffin families are descendants.
- Tristram P. Coffin, American folklorist and ballad scholar
- Walter Coffin, Welsh Member of Parliament and coal owner
- William Coffin (courtier), English courtier, favourite of Henry VIII
- William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman and peace activist
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