Background
Coffin was born at Brighton and educated at Harrow School and at Christ Church, Oxford (Bachelor 1841, Master of Arts 1843).
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Robert Coffin
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Christ Church; Harrow School.
Career
Foreign a year after this he resided with Ambrose Lisle Phillips at Grace Dieu manor, and then he went with John Henry Newman to Rome, where he was ordained priest in 1847. He joined the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, and in 1848-1849 he was superior of Saint Wilfrid"s, Cotton Hall, Staffordshire. In 1855 he was chosen rector of Saint Mary"s, Clapham, and in 1865 appointed to the office of provincial, in which he was successively confirmed every three years until his elevation to the episcopate.
From 1852 to 1872 he was mostly employed in preaching missions and giving clergy retreats throughout England, Ireland, and Scotland.
In April 1882 Pope Leo XIII nominated Coffin to the see of Southwark, in succession to James Danell. He was consecrated by Cardinal Howard in the church of Saint Alfonso, on the Esquiline, at Rome, 11 June 1882, and enthroned at Street George"s Cathedral, Southwark, on the 27th of the following month.
He died at the house of the Redemptorists at Teignmouth.
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English