Sir Joscelyn Ambrose Cramer Coghill, 7th Baronet (30 September 1902 – 6 June 1983) was an Anglo-Irish actor and aristocrat, being the 7th Baronet of Coghill (1778) (1981–1983). He was born in

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in 1902, the youngest of three sons of Elizabeth Hildegarde Augusta ''née'' Somerville (1867–1954) and the Irish painter Sir Egerton Bushe Coghill, 5th Baronet Coghill (1853–1921). He was the nephew of

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recipient

Nevill Coghill Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill (19 April 1899 – 6 November 1980) was an English literary scholar, known especially for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's ''Canterbury Tales''. Life His father was Sir Egerton Coghill, 5th ...

and the cousin of the Irish novelist

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.Ambrose Coghill
Genealogy Online website Coghill was educated at

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in Hertfordshire following which he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the

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(in which his late uncle had famously served in the

in 1879) and served with the East African Civil Service. With others he set up a business in

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, Colonial Amusements, but the partnership was dissolved in 1935. Coghill served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during

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gaining the rank of lieutenant-commander. He acted as an Administration Officer in London for the

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(1945–1946) and was Chief Secretary of the Allied Secretariat,

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(1947–1950) in Berlin in

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. His acting roles included: Avarice in the film '' Doctor Faustus'' (1967), written and co-directed by his brother

(1899–1980); Lt. Col. Douglas in the film ''

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'' (1968); Colonel in '' Whistle and I'll Come to You'' (1968); His Father (uncredited) in ''

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'' (1969); Cochefer in ''The Elusive Pimpernel'' (1969); Alderman in ''Canterbury Tales'' (1969); Colonel in "The Hunting of Lionel Crane" episode of ''

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'' (1970); Museum Curator in ''

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'' (1971), and Daniels in ''

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'' (1972). He married Elizabeth Gwendoline Atkins (1903–1980) on 7 August 1926 with whom he had two children: Faith Patricia Elizabeth Coghill (1928–2016) and Sir Egerton James Nevill Tobias Coghill, 8th Baronet Coghill, (1930–2000). The couple adopted Isabelle Edith Coghill (born 1945). He and his wife divorced in 1949. Secondly, he married Louise Fernande Berdonneau (1927–1978) on 4 July 1949, with whom he had four children: Bridget Olivia Françoise Coghill (born 1949); Christopher Michael Jerome Coghill (1950–1951); Jocelyn Edith Louise Coghill (1952–1983), and Deborah Katherine Hildegrade Coghill (born 1954). On the death of his two elder brothers, including Lieutenant Sir Marmaduke Nevile Patrick Somerville Coghill, the 6th Baronet Coghill (1896–1981) and the academic and writer

, he briefly inherited the Coghill baronetcy until his own death in 1983, after which the title passed to his son, Sir Egerton James Nevill Tobias "Toby" Coghill, the 8th Baronet Coghill (1930–2000). Ambrose Coghill died in 1983 aged 80 in Aberlour in Moray,

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.Joscelyn Ambrose Coghill in the Web: Moray, Scotland, Local Heritage Index, 1632-2014: Ancestry.com
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