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Coffin is an Anglo-Norman surname. The House of Coffin is an ancient English family which originated in Normandy, France. 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coffin (surname)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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