Sir John Coghill, 1st Baronet of Richings

Sir John Coghill, 1st Baronet (died 1785), also known as John Mayne, was a British Army officer and Tory politician.^[1]

Biography

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

1. Cokayne, George Edward (1900). Complete Baronetage (Volume V). Exeter: W. Pollard & co., ltd. pp. 211–212.
2. 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.
3. 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.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by John Frederick Richard Bull	Member of Parliament for Newport 1780–1785 With: Robert Butler	Succeeded by John Riggs Miller William Mitford
Baronetage of Great Britain
New creation	Baronet (of Richings) 1781–1785	Extinct