Francis Coghlan

Francis Coghlan was buried in the north cloister of Westminster Abbey on 22nd January 1735 but he has no marker or memorial. The Abbey funeral book says that he died on 17th January aged 52.

The General Evening Post of 18th January said:

Yesterday morning died of a tedious indisposition at his lodgings in Pall Mall, Francis Coghlan Esq. a Barrister at Law of the kingdom of Ireland: he no sooner appeared at that Bar than he distinguished himself in a very eminent degree and shortly became the darling of the Irlsh courts: his conduct in life was so amiable that he was as universally esteemed as known, and, as humanity and good nature influenced all his actions, he may justly be deemed a general loss to his country.

He had married Martha Price, widow, of St Clement Danes.