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COFFIN—COGHILL.  share in the destruction of which fortress he was nominated a C.B. 18 Dec. following. From 13 March, 1841, until 31 Dec. 1842, he afterwards officiated as Flag-Captain, in the 110, and  120, to his father, then Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth. Since 14 Oct. 1846 he has been in command of the 36.

Capt. Codrington is a Knight of the Russian, French, and Greek orders of the 4th class of St. Vladamir, the Legion of Honour, and Redeemer of Greece.

 COFFIN. 

entered the Navy, 1 Oct. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on borad the 74, Capt. John Irvine, guard-ship at Spithead; was successively transferred, in the course of the following year, to the  and  74’s, Capts. Sam. Pym and Jas. Nicoll Morris, and 84, Capt. Edw. Buller; and on joining, in Jan. 1807, the 80, Capt. Benj. Hallowell, attended the expedition to Egypt, and witnessed, as Midshipman, the destruction of the French line-of-battle ships Robuste and Lion, off Cape Cette. After a further servitude of three years on board the 74, Capt. Wm. Cuming, and 18, Capt. Ralph Randolph Wormeley, he returned, in April, 1813, to the Malta, then flag-ship of his former Captain, Hallowell, and was for some time very actively employed commanding a gun-boat in co-operation with the patriots on the south coast of Spain. On his arrival in England as Acting-Lieutenant of the 10, Capt. Thos. Colby, Mr. Coffin was officially promoted by commission dated 20 July, 1814; after which he served, from June, 1815, to Dec. 1818, on board the 22, Capt. Hon. Robt. Rodney, 16, Capt. Lord Algernon Percy, and  16, Capt. John Gore, on the Home and North American stations. His next appointments appear to have been, 11 Aug. 1824, and 1 March, 1826, to the 28, Capt. Jas. Arthur Murray, and 84, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield,. employed off the coast of Africa and at Rio de Janeiro, whence he returned home on the receipt of his second promotal commission, 19 Sept. 1829. He subsequently commanded the 16, on the Lisbon station, from 26 Dec. 1836, until the spring of 1841; and on 23 Nov. following was promoted to his present rank. He has not since been afloat.

Capt. Coffin married, 10 Nov. 1829, Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late Wm. Curry, Esq., of Southampton.

 COFFIN. 

is third son of the late Major-General John Coffin, an officer distinguished in the first American war, by Anne, daughter of Wm. Matthews, Esq., of St. John’s Island, South Carolina; and nephew of Sir Isaac Coffin, Bart., G.C.H., Admiral of the Red, who died 23 July, 1839.

This officer entered the Navy, 7 Nov. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, on the Halifax station; served next, from 21 Aug. 1802, until Feb. 1805, as Midshipman, in the  32, Capt. Ross Donnelly, under whom he assisted, off Sardinia, at the capture, 8 July, 1803, of the French corvette L’Alcion, of 16 guns and 96 men; joined, in Feb. 1805, the  74, bearing the flag in the East Indies of Sir Thos. Troubridge; and for his conduct as Master’s Mate of the 18, Capt. Edw. Thos. Troubridge, at the capture, after a stiff action of an hour, of the Dutch 36-gun frigate Pallas, and armed ships Vittoria and Batavia, near Java, 26 July, 1806, was, on 13 Oct. following, appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the, Capt. Wm. Wilbraham. In Oct. 1807 he was transferred, in a similar capacity, to the 38, Capt. Wm. Wells, but he does not appear to have been confirmed by the Admiralty until 11 April, 1808, when we find him appointed to the 18, Capt. Rich. Buck. Returning to England towards the close of the same year, in the 36, Capt. John Bastard, Mr. Coffin, in Aug. 1809, was sent to join the  sloop, Capt. Grove, on the Jamaica station, whence, unable to withstand the effects of the climate, he speedily came home, and obtained an appointment, 16 Dec. 1809, to the  74, Capt. John Talbot. On 21 Feb. 1812, while cruizing in the Gulf of Venice, in company with the 18, the latter ship fell in with, and, at the close of a most gallant conflict of four hours and a half, in which she lost 27 men killed and 99 wounded, and the enemy 400 killed and wounded, took the French 74-gun ship Rivoli, whose consorts, three brigs and two gun-boats, were also defeated. Lieut. Coffin – who, with Lieut. Edw. Whyte, was intrusted with the charge of the prize, and by his exertions succeeded in getting her into port – continued to serve on the Mediterranean station, in the 98, Capt. Robt. Plampin, and 26, Capts. Gawen Wm. Hamilton and John Cornish, until promoted, 1 July, 1814, to the command of the sloop, at Sheerness, which he, however, only retained until the following Oct. His last appointment was, 12 Aug. 1819, to the  18, employed successively, in the Leeward Islands, and, for the suppression of smuggling, off the coast of Ireland. Capt. Coffin, who had been on half-pay since his attainment of Post-rank, 26 Dec. 1822, accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

He married, 16 June, 1834, Sophy Wallace, daughter of Lochlan Donaldson, Esq.

 COFFIN. 

entered the Navy 15 April, 1824; passed his examination 6 Oct. 1830; and was serving as Mate on board the steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Jenkins, when he was promoted to the rank he now holds 23 Nov. 1841. His next appointments were – 16 Feb. 1842, to the 18, Capt. Robt. Sharpe, in which sloop he served on the North America and West India station, nearly the whole time as First-Lieutenant, until the close of 1845 – and 27 Aug. 1846, in the latter capacity, to the brig, Capt. Adolphus Slade, from which vessel, however, he was soon afterwards superseded.

Lieut. Coffin, on 14 March, 1842, was awarded a pension for wounds of 21l. 7s. 6d. – Messrs. Chard.

 COGHILL, Bart., formerly. 

, born in 1773, is youngest son of the late Sir John Coghill, Bart., by Mary, daughter of Dr. Josiah Hort, Archbishop of Tuam. He succeeded his brother, as third Baronet, 21 May, 1817, and assumed, in the following June, the surname of “Coghill,” in place of his patronymic “Cramer.”

This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1782, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 50, Capts. Hugh Campbell and Jas. Burney, with whom he served in the East Indies until discharged in April, 1786. In April, 1798, he re-embarked on board the 64, armée en flûte, Capt. Geo. Burlton, in which ship, having been created an Acting-Lieutenant in Sept. 1798, he was officially promoted 24 March, 1800. After attending the subsequent expedition to Egypt, and cutting out, in command of the ’s boats, the Prima galley, from the mole of Genoa, he removed, 25 April, 1801, to the, Capt. Jas. Stevenson; and, on 7 May, 1802, was promoted, from the frigate, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, to the command of the sloop, in the East Indies; where, with