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Surname	Coffin	Alternative Surname
First Name	Edmond, of Exeter	Initial of Surname	C
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1759-70
Year of Death
Biographical Details	Coffin, who may have been a brother of Thomas Coffin of Exeter, alderman and goldsmith, became a freeman of his native city in 1769. In 1759 he received £116 for work at the Mayoralty House and he was working at the Guildhall in 1767 (Exeter City Archives). He signs the large wall monument to Thomas Bolithoe, which depicts a mourning woman at an urn before a landscape in low relief, all set against a grey marble obelisk (1). A ‘William Coffin’, son of Thomas the goldsmith, was apprenticed to William Barlow in 1755. Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 110