Tristram Coffin (other)
Tristram Coffin may refer to: * Tristram Coffin (settler) (1606–1681), leader of a group of investors who bought Nantucket in 1659 * Tristram J. Coffin (born 1963), American attorney Vermont, former United States Attorney * Tris Coffin (1909–1990), American film and television actor * Tristram Potter Coffin Tristram Potter Coffin (February 13, 1922January 31, 2012) was an American folklorist and leading scholar of ballad texts in the 20th century. Coffin spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor of Engl ...

Tristram Coffin (settler)
Tristram Coffin (or Coffyn) (c. 1609 – 2 October 1681) was an immigrant to Massachusetts from England. In 1659 he led a group of investors that bought Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew for thirty pounds and two beaver hats. He became a prominent citizen of the settlement. A great number of his descendants became prominent in North American society, and many were involved in the later history of Nantucket during and after its heyday as a whaling center. Almost all notable Americans with roots in Nantucket are descended from Tristram Coffin, although Benjamin Franklin was an exception. England, 1605–1642 Tristram Coffin was born to Peter and Joanna (Kember) Coffin and baptized in the parish of Brixton near Plymouth, England, on 11 March 1609–10. He belonged to the landed gentry. He married Dionis Stevens in 1630 and they were to have nine children, the first five born in England. Coffin was a Brixton church warden from 1639 to 1640, and was a constable in 1641. Charles I inh ...
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Tristram J
Tristram may refer to: Literature * the title character of ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'', a novel by Laurence Sterne * the title character of ''Tristram of Lyonesse'', an epic poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne *"Tristram", a Pulitzer Prize-winning work by Edwin Arlington Robinson Legendary characters * Tristram or Tristan, a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend * Tristram the Younger, last king of Lyonesse in the Italian romance ''I Due Tristani'', son of the above People * Tristram (name), a list of people with the given name or surname Other uses * Tristram, a town in the books and games of the '' Diablo'' video game series See also * Tristram's Woodpecker, a bird * Tristram's starling or Tristram's grackle, a bird * Tristram's jird, a species of gerbil * Sir Tristram (1971–1997), a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire * RFA Sir Tristram (L3505), a Landing Ship Logistics of the Round Table class * Tristan (other) Tristan is a Knigh ...
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Tris Coffin
Tristram Chockley Coffin (August 13, 1909 – March 26, 1990) was a film and television actor from the latter 1930s through the 1970s, usually in westerns or other B-movie action-adventure productions. Early years Coffin's mother was actress Elizabeth Christie, and his uncle was writer Robert P. T. Coffin. Career In 1940, Coffin appeared as Phillips in ''Chasing Trouble'', a comedy espionage film. He is perhaps best known for his role as Jeff King in Republic Pictures' ''King of the Rocket Men'' (1949), the first of three serials starring the "Rocketman" character. During the 1940s and into the early 1950s Coffin appeared in other movie serials, including ''Dick Tracy's G-Men'' (1939), ''Jesse James Rides Again'' (1947), ''Bruce Gentry'' (1949), ''Pirates of the High Seas'' (1950), ''Mysterious Dr. Satan'' (1940), ''Sky Raiders'' (1941), '' Holt of the Secret Service'' (1941), ''Perils of Nyoka'' (1942), ''Federal Agents vs. the Underworld'' (1949), and '' Radar Patrol v ...
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