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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 679

The pair to Chief Inspector C. A. Coggan, Metropolitan Police, whose son was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1974-80

Silver Jubilee 1935; Special Constabulary L.S. & G.C., 2 clasps, The Great War 1914-18, Long Service, 1929 (Inspr. Cornish A. Coggan) good very fine (2)

Cornish Arthur Coggan was born at St. Pancras in 1877 and appears on the 1911 Census as a Chartered Secretary living in Highgate married to Fannie Sarah Coggan with whom he had three children, she died on 26 February 1938. He remarried in 1939 to Nora Booth but Coggan died on 24 November 1942 at Finchley, Middlesex.

His third child Frederick Donald Coggan later became Archbishop of Canterbury between 1974-80. His obituary confirms his father Cornish Arthur Coggan, a Highgate businessman, who was a past President of the Federation of Meat Traders and who was Mayor of St. Pancras from 1912-13.

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