Coffin (surname)

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Ethnicity English Place of origin Devon, England		Earlier spellings Coffyn Estate Portledge

Current region South West EnglandNew EnglandEastern 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

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