Neha Patil (Editor)

Coffin (surname)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Ethnicity
  
English

Place of origin
  
Devon, England

Earlier spellings
  
Coffyn

Estate
  
Portledge

Coffin (surname)

Current region
  
South West England New England Eastern Canada

Coffin is an English surname.

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

    • See also:

  • Coffin (whaling family)
  • Coffin v. United States

    • References

    Coffin (surname) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA