Richard Coffin (1684–1766)

Richard Coffin (1684–1766) of Portledge, near Bideford, Devon was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1734.

23 July 1684, the fourth but only surviving son of Richard Coffin of Portledge and his third wife Anne Prideaux, daughter of Edmund Prideaux of Padstow, Cornwall.

[1] Coffin was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for Camelford at the 1715 British general election.

At the 1722 British general election he stood unsuccessfully at Barnstaple, but he was returned for it unopposed at the 1727 British general election on the interest of his friend John Rolle.

[1] He left Portledge to Richard and Robert Bennett, sons of his sister Honour.