CODRINGTON, Sir Edward (youngest son of Edward Codrington of London 1732–75). b. 27 April 1770; entered navy 18 July 1783; captain 6 April 1795; captain of the Orion at Trafalgar 1805; colonel of Marines 4 Dec. 1813; commander-in chief of Mediterranean squadron 1 Nov. 1826 to April 1828 when recalled; commanded allied fleets of England, France and Russia at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827; commanded Channel fleet 7 June 1831 to 24 Oct. 1831; admiral 10 Jany. 1837; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 22 Nov. 1839 to 10 Dec. 1842; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 13 Nov. 1827, declined to pay the fees which amounted to £386 7s. 2d.; G.C.M.G. 23 April 1827, resigned 1828 but reinstated by Wm. iv, 17 Aug. 1832; M.P. for Devonport 1832–39; groom in waiting in Queen’s household July 1846; F.R.S. 21 Nov. 1822. d. 110 Eaton sq. London 28 April 1851. Memoir by his daughter Lady Bourchier 2 vols. 1873, 2 portraits; J. Allen’s Battles of the British navy ii, 514, (1852), portrait.
CODRINGTON, Sir Henry John (youngest son of the preceding). b. Preston Candover, Hants. 17 Oct. 1808; ed. at Harrow; entered navy 21 Feb. 1823; captain 20 Jany. 1836; employed in the Baltic during Russian war 1854–6; admiral superintendent of Malta dockyard 1858–63; admiral 18 Oct. 1867; commander-in chief at Plymouth 1869–72; admiral of the fleet 22 Jany. 1877 to death; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 13 March 1867; his portrait is in the Painted Hall at Greenwich. d. 112 Eaton sq. London 4 Aug. 1877. Selections from the letters of Sir H. Codrington edited by his sister Lady Bourchier 1880.
CODRINGTON, Sir William John (brother of the preceding). b. 26 Nov. 1804; ensign 88 foot 22 Feb. 1821; ensign Coldstream guards 24 April 1823, captain 8 July 1836; commanded first brigade of light division in the Crimea 1 Sep. 1854; commanded the light division 30 July 1855 to 10 Nov. 1855; commander-in-chief in the Crimea 11 Nov. 1855 to 12 July 1856; col. of 54 foot 11 Aug. 1856, of 23 foot 27 Dec. 1860 and of Coldstream guards 16 March 1875 to death; M.P. for Greenwich 9 Feb. 1857 to 23 April 1859; contested Westminster, Feb. 1874 and Lewes, April 1880; governor of Gibraltar, May 1859 to Nov. 1865; general 27 July 1863, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Danmore cottage, Hackfield near Winchfield, Hants. 6 Aug. 1884. Army and navy mag. iii, 358–60 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. xxvii, 520 (1855), portrait, xxx, 479 (1857), portrait.
CODRINGTON, Sir William Raimond, 4 Baronet. b. Rennes, Brittany 25 Jany. 1806; succeeded 1816. d. Château de la Boullaye near Montfort, Brittany 7 or 17 Dec. 1873.
Note.—On the death of the 3rd baronet the title was assumed by the grandson of the 1st baronet on the ground that the 3rd baronet left no legitimate issue, but the Heralds’ College confirmed Sir W. R. Codrington in the baronetcy.
COEY, Sir Edward (son of James Coey of Larne, co. Antrim). b. Larne 1805; mayor of Belfast 1861, alderman 1861; knighted by Earl of Carlisle, lord lieut. of Ireland 1861; sheriff of Antrim 1867. d. Merville, Belfast 26 June 1887.
COFFEY, James Charles (2 son of Edmund Coffey of co. Kerry). b. Dublin 1815; called to Irish bar, Trinity term 1843; went Munster circuit; Q.C. 13 June 1864; county court judge for Westmeath, transferred to Leitrim, transferred to Londonderry, retired 1879; edited the Monitor a whig anti-repeal paper. d. Sea Point, co. Dublin 31 July 1880.
COFFIN, Sir Edward Pine (youngest son of Rev. John Pine of East Down, Devon 1736–1824, who assumed name of Coffin 1797). b. East Down 20 Oct. 1784; entered commissariat service 25 July 1805; deputy commissary general 4 Aug. 1814; commissary general 1 July 1840 to 1 April 1848 when placed on h.p.; had charge of relief operations at Limerick and on west coast of Ireland during famine, Jany. to Aug. 1846; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1846; one of comrs. of inquiry into working of royal mint 1 April 1848. d. Gay st. Bath 31 July 1862.
COFFIN, Henry Edward. b. 1794; entered navy 1 Oct. 1805; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Springfield house, Caversham near Reading 31 Aug. 1881 in 88 year.
COFFIN, Sir Isaac Campbell (eld. son of Francis Holmes Coffin, admiral R.N.) b. 1801; entered Madras army 3 June 1818; commanded Hyderabad subsidiary force 6 Nov. 1855; commanded southern division of Madras army 28 March 1859 to 28 March 1864 for which he was created K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; col. 12 Madras N.I. 23 July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 18 July 1869. d. 9 St. John’s park south, Blackheath, Kent 1 Oct. 1872.