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{{About|the East India Company Army officer|his uncle, the admiral and politician|Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name=Sir Isaac Campbell Coffin
|birth_date=[[Baptism|bap.]] 24 August 1801
|death_date= 1 October 1872
|image=
|caption=
|birth_place =
|death_place = 9 St John's Park South, [[Blackheath, London|Blackheath]], London
|nickname=
|residence = [[United Kingdom]]
|nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
|allegiance=[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom of<br>Great Britain and Ireland]]
|serviceyears=1818–1872
|rank=[[Major-General (United Kingdom)|Major-General]]
|branch= [[East India Company]]
|commands=
|unit=
|battles=
*[[Company rule in India]]
*[[First Anglo-Burmese War]]
*[[Indian Mutiny]]
|awards=[[Order of the Star of India|Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India]]
|relations=[[Clifford Coffin]] V.C. (Son)
}}

'''Sir Isaac Campbell Coffin''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCSI}} ([[Baptism|bap.]] 24 August 1801 – 1 October 1872) was an officer of the [[East India Company]]'s military service who served during the [[Company rule in India|company's rule in India]], the [[First Anglo-Burmese War]] and the [[Indian Mutiny]]. He rose to the rank of [[Major-General (United Kingdom)|major-general]] after a long career in India.

==Family and early life==
Coffin was born c. 1801, the son of [[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]] Francis Holmes Coffin and baptized on 24 August 1801 at St Mary the Virgin, [[Dover]], [[Kent]]. His sister Emily was the mother of [[Francis Cunningham Scott]].<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB |chapter=Coffin, Sir Isaac Campbell (bap. 1801, d. 1872)|chapter-url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5808?docPos=2|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year = 2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/5808 }}</ref><ref name="Dod">{{Cite book|last=Dod |title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain|page=195}}</ref>

After receiving his education, part of which took place in France, he joined the military arm of the East India Company on 3 June 1818, and sailed to India, arriving on 12 January 1819. In 1821 he was posted as lieutenant to the [[21st Madras Pioneers]], and from 4 June 1824 he served as [[adjutant]] to the [[72nd Punjabis|12th Madras Native Infantry]]. The company took part in the [[First Anglo-Burmese War]], and Coffin was present at the attacks on [[Rangoon]] on 9 and 15 December 1824.{{sfn|Chichester|1887}}

==Promotions==
A series of posts followed, Coffin was [[quartermaster]], interpreter, and [[paymaster]] to the 12th Madras Native Infantry from 27 October 1826, and was advanced to [[captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] on 26 July 1828.{{sfn|Chichester|1887}}

Further posts and promotions saw Coffin appointed paymaster to the Nagpur subsidiary force on 30 June 1829, and paymaster in [[Mysore]] on 7 January 1834. Coffin was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] on 24 July 1840, and then to [[Lieutenant Colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-colonel]] on 15 September 1845, being appointed to the [[63rd Palamcottah Light Infantry|3rd (Palamcottah) regiment]] of the Madras native light infantry several weeks later on 7 October 1845.{{sfn|Chichester|1887}}

He was raised to [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] on 20 June 1854, taking command of the Hyderabad subsidiary force from 6 November 1855 and commanding them with the rank of [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|brigadier]] during the [[Indian Mutiny]].<ref name="Dod"/> Coffin was promoted to [[Major-General (United Kingdom)|major-general]] on 29 May 1857, after the mutiny had been put down. He took command of a division of the Madras army from 28 March 1859 to 28 March 1864, and was finally promoted to [[Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-general]] on 18 July 1869.{{sfn|Chichester|1887}}<ref name="Dod"/>

==Family and later life==
Coffin was appointed a [[Order of the Star of India|Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India]] in 1866.<ref name="Dod"/> He married Marianne Harrington on 12 February 1824. She died on 13 February 1864. He married, secondly, on 23 October 1866 at the British Embassy in Berlin Catherine Eliza Shepherd. General Isaac Coffin died suddenly on 1 October 1872, at his home at 9 St John's Park South, [[Blackheath, London|Blackheath]], London. He was survived by his wife and several children which included [[Clifford Coffin]] V.C. {{sfn|Chichester|1887}}

==Notes==
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{{DNB|wstitle=Coffin, Isaac Campbell |first=Henry Manners|last=Chichester|volume=11|pages=217-218}}

==References==
{{Refbegin}}
*{{Cite book|title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland: Including All the Titled Classes|year=1870|publisher=Whittaker|location=London|volume=30}}
*{{Cite ODNB|first=H. M. |last=Chichester|chapter=Coffin, Sir Isaac Campbell (bap. 1801, d. 1872)|chapter-url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5808?docPos=2|title=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] |year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/5808 }}
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