John Pine Coffin
John Pine Coffin | |
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| 15th Governor of St. Helena | |
| In office July 1821 – March 1823 | |
| Preceded by | Hudson Lowe |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Walker |
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| Born | 16 March 1778 Major-General |
| Battles/wars | Napoleonic Wars |
Life
Napoleonic Wars
John Pine Coffin, fourth son of
On the formation of the Royal Staff Corps (for engineer and other departmental duties under the quartermaster-general), he was appointed to a company therein, but the year after was promoted to major and removed to the permanent staff of the quartermaster-general's department, in which capacity he was in Dublin at the time of Emmet's insurrection, and continued to serve in Ireland until 1806, afterwards accompanying Lord Cathcart to the Isle of Rugen and in the expedition against Copenhagen in 1807.[1]
In 1808 he was sent to the Mediterranean as deputy quartermaster-general with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was employed with the expedition to the
After the renewal of hostilities in 1815, when the Austrian and Piedmontese armies of occupation, a hundred thousand strong, entered France,[b] Coffin was attached, in the capacity of British military commissioner with the rank of brigadier-general, to the Austro-Sardinians, who crossed Mont Cenis, and remained with them until they quitted French territory, in accordance with the Treaty of Paris.[1]
St. Helena
In 1817 he was appointed regimental major of the Royal Staff Corps, at headquarters,
Personal life
He married, in 1820, the only daughter of George Monkland, late of Belmont, Bath, by whom he had no issue. He died at Bath on 10 February 1830. Coffin was the English translator of Stutterheim's Account of the Battle of Austerlitz (London, 1806).[1]
Sources
- Burke's Landed Gentry, under "Pine-Coffin";
- The Gentleman's Magazine c. (i.), 369.
The following works may be consulted for details of some of the historic events with which Coffin was connected:
- Sir J. W. Gordon's Military Transactions, London, 1809 (for affairs, in the Baltic);
- Sir H. E. Bunbury's Narrative of Passages in the War with France, 1851 (for some very curious information respecting the expedition to the Bay of Naples and the defence of Sicily);
- Walter Henry's Events of Military Life (for St. Helena).
Coffin's letters to Sir Hudson Lowe, of various dates from 1808 to 1823, will be found in British Library Add MSS 20133, 20139, 20191, 20192, 20206 and 20211.[2]
See also
References
Notes
- ^ see William James, Naval History vi. 19.
- ^ see Archibald Alison, History of Europe xiv. 27.
- ^ British Library Add MS. 20206.
Citations
Bibliography
- Chichester, Henry Manners (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 218–219.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - Chichester, H. M.; Stearn, Roger T. (2004). "Coffin, John Pine". In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. n.p.
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