Sir John Coghill, 1st Baronet (died 1785), also known as John Mayne, was a British Army officer and Tory politician.[1]
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Born John Mayne, he assumed the surname of Coghill upon his marriage to Hester Coghill, an heiress and daughter of James Coghill and niece of Marmaduke Coghill.[1]
He was a cornet in the 14th Regiment of Dragoons in 1734, a captain in 1754 and a major 1766. His name had disappeared from the Army lists by 1771.[2] Between 1780 and his death he represented Newport in the House of Commons.[1] He was elected unopposed on the interest of the Duke of Northumberland. In May 1784 he was classed as a Pittite. There is no record of his having spoken in the House of Commons.[2]
He was created a baronet, of Richings in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 24 March 1781.[3] He died without issue at which point the title became extinct.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d Cokayne, George Edward (1900). Complete Baronetage (Volume V). Exeter: W. Pollard & co., ltd. pp. 211–212.
- ^ a b Christie, I.R. (1964). "COGHILL (formerly MAYNE), John (d.1785), of Richings Park, Bucks.". In Namier, L.; Brooke, J. (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
- ^ John Burke & Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland (W. Clowes, 1844), p.122.