Researching Clifford Coffin
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 729 people with the Coffin surname? In that year Coffin was ranked number 2851 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Clifford means "From a steep cliff" and is of English origin.
Records of Clifford Coffin on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Clifford Coffin and the Coffin Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 701 people with the Coffin surname in the UK? Coffin is now ranked number 3380 for popularity in the UK. |
Coffin Family Tree Databases
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Some Famous People called Clifford Coffin
Clifford Coffin (photographer)
Clifford Coffin (1913–1972) was an American fashion photographer, particularly for Vogue magazine, and a "wild and eccentric bohemian". He has also been called "the greatest of Vogue magazine’s 'lost' photographers", and an "outspoken homosexual with a heroic appetite for self-destruction, his bad behaviour was legendary".
Clifford Coffin: The Varnished Truth – Photographs from Vogue 1945 to 1955 was an exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery for three months in 1997.
Coffin suffered from alcoholism and drug addiction, and died of throat cancer in Pasadena, California, in 1972, aged 58.
Source: Clifford Coffin (photographer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Coffin
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