COFFIN, John Townsend. b. 1789; entered navy 7 Nov. 1799; captain 26 Dec. 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 26 June 1863. d. Holgate hill, York 29 April 1882.
COFFIN, Right Rev. Robert Aston. b. Brighton 19 July 1819; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; V. of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford 1843; received into Church of Rome 3 Dec. 1845; ordained priest at Rome 1847; superior of St. Wilfrids, Cotton hall, Staffs. 1848–9; entered novitiate of Redemptorist Fathers at St. Trond in Belgium and made his profession 2 Feb. 1852; R. of St. Mary’s, Clapham 1855; provincial 1865–82; bishop of Southwark, April 1882 to death; consecrated at Rome 11 June 1882, enthroned at St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 27 July 1882; author of The oratory of the faithful soul translated from F. L. Blosius 1848, and of translations of many of the works of St. Alphonsus de Liguori. d. house of the Redemptorists, Teignmouth 6 April 1885. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 523–6 (1885).
COFFIN, William Foster. b. Bath 1808; ed. at Eton; called to Lower Canadian bar 1835; comr. of police 1840; raised and commanded Montreal field battery 1855; comr. of ordnance and admiralty lands for dominion of Canada; author of Memorial to Sir E. W. Head 1855; 1812, The war and its moral 2 vols. 1864; Three chapters on a triple project; Thoughts on defence from a Canadian point of view; Quirks of diplomacy. d. 1878.
COGAN, Rev. Eliezer (son of John Cogan of Bothwell, Northamptonshire, surgeon who d. 1784). b. Rothwell 1762; ed. at Daventry; Presbyterian minister at Cirencester 1787–9, at Walthamstow 1801–16; kept a school at Higham Hill, Walthamstow 1801–28; author of An address to the Dissenters on classical literature 1789; Reflections on the evidences of Christianity 1796; Sermons chiefly on practical subjects 2 vols. 1817; edited Moschi Idyllia tria, Grece 1795. d. Higham Hill 21 Jany. 1855. Christian Reformer xi, 237–59 (1855); Dict. of Nat. Biog. xi, 219–20 (1887).
COGHLAN, Sir William Marcus (son of Jeremiah Coghlan, captain R.N.) b. Plymouth 31 May 1803; ed. at Addiscombe; Second lieut. Bombay Artillery 19 Dec. 1820, colonel 28 Nov. 1854, col. commandant 8 May 1859 to death; political resident and commandant at Aden 1854–63; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 6 June 1864. d. Ramsgate 26 Nov. 1885.
COGSWELL, John. b. March 1827; a printer and stationer at Bath to 1833; reporter on the Hastings News 1833–50; edited the Hastings Chronicle 1850, the Hastings and St. Leonards Times, the West Surrey Times 1880–3 and 1886 to death. d. 13 April 1887.
COHEN, Lionel Louis (son of the succeeding). b. London 2 June 1832; foreign banker with his father under name of Louis Cohen and Sons 1852; senior partner 1882–5 when he retired; a trustee and manager of Stock Exchange 1870 to death; a founder and vice-pres. of United Synagogue; pres. of Jewish Board of Guardians 1869 to death; M.P. for North Paddington 25 Nov. 1885 to death. d. 9 Hyde park terrace, London 26 June 1887. Vanity Fair 24 April 1886, portrait.
COHEN, Louis (son of Joseph Cohen). b. Sep. 1799; entered the Stock Exchange, London 1819, member of its committee 15 years; warden of Great Synagogue, London 1837; member of committee of the Seven Elders; member of Board of Deputies 25 years, the main author of new constitution of the Board. d. 84 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 15 March 1882, personalty sworn £623,000, 22 April 1882. Jewish Chronicle 17 March 1882 p. 12, 24 March p. 12.
COLBORNE, Nicholas William Ridley-Colborne, 1 Baron (2 son of Sir Matthew White Ridley of Blagdon, Northumberland, 2 baronet 1745–1813). b. St. Marylebone, London 14 April 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1800; entered at G.I. 12 Dec. 1795 but withdrew 26 April 1809 without being called; assumed additional name of Colborne 21 June 1803; M.P. for Appleby 1807–12, for Thetford 1818–26, for Horsham 1827–32, for Wells 1834–7; created Baron Colborne of West Harding, Norfolk 15 May 1839; member of Fine Arts commission 1841, of Metropolitan improvements commission 1842. d. 19 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 3 May 1854.
COLBRAN, John. b. 1809; a bookseller at Tunbridge Wells; started in 1833 the Tunbridge Wells Visitor, the first newspaper there; started the Tunbridge Wells Gazette 1851; retired 1874. d. Tunbridge Wells 20 Sep. 1884.