Charles Edward
Pine-Coffin
Male
England
1862-10-06
Exmouth, Devon, England, England
1915-12-31
Exmouth, Devon, England, England
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin was born on 6 October 1862 in Exmouth, Devon. He was the eldest son of the Reverend Charles John Samuel Pine-Coffin, a clerk in holy orders (b. 10 February 1830 in Devon-d. 20 January 1871 in Woolston House, Kingsbridge), and Margaret Juliana Pine-Coffin (née Carwithen; 1832-1894).
The Reverend Charles John Samuel Pine-Coffin’s paternal grandfather, Reverend John Pine (1735-1824) had assumed the Coffin arms in 1796 after the death of his cousin, Richard Bennett Coffin, thus joining the Pine and Coffin families of Devon. [The Pine-Coffin family lived in Portledge Manor in the parish of Alwington in Devon. The family was very wealthy and owned most of the land and property in the surrounding villages.]
Following the death of the Reverend Charles John Samuel Pine-Coffin in 1871, Margaret Pine-Coffin remarried. Her second husband was Major-General Henley Thomas Bartlett (12 February 1824-26 July 1885 in Exmouth). They were married in 1874 in Saint George’s Church, Hanover Square, London. Major-General Bartlett was a retired lieutenant-colonel in the Bengal Staff Corps and a Justice of the Peace for the county of Devon. In the 1881 Census of England, the Bartlett family was living in a house in the village of Littleham in Devon.
Charles Edward Pine Coffin attended Marlborough College and, later, Cambridge University, where he studied law. Although he was admitted to the Inner Temple on 25 October 1883, he does not have appeared to have practised law in later life.
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Charles Edward Pine Coffin married fellow lawn tennis player Lilian Mary Olivia Cole on Tuesday, 18 August 1885 in Withycombe Church, Withycombe Raleigh. A detailed report of this marriage was carried in The Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette newspaper on 19 August 1885 and is reproduced in part below, with some first names added:
“The marriage of Mr [Charles] Edward Pine-Coffin, of Portledge, Bideford, to Miss Lilian M.O. Cole, daughter of Mr Edward Campbell Stuart Cole, J.P., of Stoke Lyne, Withycombe, Exmouth, was celebrated at Withycombe Church yesterday. A large number of persons assembled to witness the ceremony. The service was choral. The Reverend George Carwithen, uncle of the bridegroom, officiated. Mr Josceline Percy acted as best man, and the bride was given away by her father. In consequence of the recent death of Major-General [Henley Thomas] Bartlett – a near relation of the bridegroom – the wedding guests were confined to the immediate relatives of the bride and bridegroom.
“Among those present were Mrs [Eliza] Stevenson (grandmother of the bride), Mr Edward and Mrs [Olivia] Cole, Mrs Butler, Mrs. H., Misses and Master Wright, Mr and Mrs Hoffmann, Messrs A. and C. Hoffmann, Mr Granville-Stevenson, Mrs Denis Boles, Mr A.B. Cane, the Reverend George Carwithen, and Mr. Josceline Percy. The bridesmaids were Miss [Julia] Pine-Coffin, sister of the bridegroom; Miss Wright and Miss R. Stevenson, cousins of the bride. […]
“During the afternoon the newly-wedded couple left Exmouth for London, en route to the Continent, where they intend spending their honeymoon. The wedding-cake was supplied by Messrs Bolland, of Chester, and the bridal bouquets by Messrs Veitch & Son, of Exeter. Flags and bunting were freely displayed from the church to Stoke Lyne, and mottoes, such as ‘God bless the happy pair’, ‘Happy may you be’, &c. Over the lodge-gate was a magnificent arch of evergreens, in the centre of which was the motto, ‘God bless the bride and bridegroom’.”
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Charles and Lilian Pine-Coffin had three daughters together. He died in Exeter in December 1915 at the age of 53. Lilian Cole died in London in June 1919 at the age of 55.
1881 - 1890
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50
25
1882 - Sidmouth (Amateur)
Quarterfinals
A.H. Greening 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-4
5-7
6-2
3-6
3-0
ret.
Round 1
Edward James Avory 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Philip Grove 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-4
3-6
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Arthur Nevile John Story 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-0
6-2
1-6
4-6
9-7
Quarterfinals
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
L. Peel Yates
6-2
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
John Redfern Deykin 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-2
6-1
6-4
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
Alfred J. de Winton
6-4
7-5
Semifinals
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
Bertram Reginald Warren
1-6
6-4
6-2
Final
L. Middleton 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
Henry Edwin Hunter Kent 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-3
6-4
6-2
Round 1
Robert Charles Thompson 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-3
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
Edward Yatman
6-4
6-1
Quarterfinals
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
F.A. Hedley
6-0
6-1
Semifinals
Ernest Wool Lewis 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-0
6-1
Round 1
Henry (Harry) Grove 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
4-6
6-4
6-0
2-6
6-0
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
Henry Edwin Hunter Kent
5-6
6-5
6-1
Round 2
Ernest Wool Lewis 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-3
6-1
Round 2
William Nevill Cobbold 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
?
Round 1
Dennis Fortescue Boles 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-4
3-6
6-1
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
J.G. Bush
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
Francis Seymour (Frank) Noon
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Captain C.S. Wood 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
4-6
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
Arthur Thomas Toller
6-5
6-2
Round 2
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
A. Fleet
6-4
6-3
Round 3
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
Richard Henry Fuller
1-6
1-6
6-4
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
William C. Taylor 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-4
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Barrington Henry Syer Barnes 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-5
6-4
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
George S. Murray Hill
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
W.A. Burrows
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
Francis Seymour (Frank) Noon
6-4
6-4
Semifinals
Arthur John Stanley 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-4
6-3
Round 1
George Jones Mitton 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-4
6-5
Round 1
Charles Walder Grinstead 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-1
5-7
6-1
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
Dennis Fortescue Boles
6-0
5-7
6-1
Round 2
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
Barrington Henry Syer Barnes 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-3
0-6
6-3
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
bye
Round 2
Reverend Henry Sykes 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
?
Round 1
Arthur Walton Fuller 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-0
6-1
6-3
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
W. Thornton
?
Quarterfinals
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
W.D.C. McLachlan
?
Semifinals
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
J.B. Thomson
?
Final
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
H. Sawyer
?
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
E.B. Mack
6-5
2-6
6-5
Round 2
J.B. Thomson 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
A. Hodgson
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
G.M. Minchin 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin 1 *
Dennis Fortescue Boles
7-5
4-6
7-5
Round 2
Arthur William Buckingham 1 *
Charles Edward Pine-Coffin
6-1
6-1