Prisca Coborn

Prisca or Priscilla Coborn, Coburne or Colbourne (, 24 August 1622 – 13 November 1701) was a wealthy widow who lived in Middlesex, now in the East End of Greater London during the Stuart Era. She was a philanthropist who gave money to the poor and established a school for girls.

Biography Forster was the daughter of John Forster, a minister of Bow Church, where she was baptised on 30 August 1622. She also gave money to help the poor of Bow and Stepney in the East End of London, and bequeathed funds for an ornamental plaster ceiling in Bow Church. A ward in St Bartholomew's Hospital was named Coborn in recognition of her gifts. One of the bells in the church of St Dunstan's, Stepney was dedicated to Mrs. Prisca Coborn when cast in 1806. A historian writing in 1885 estimated that the value of her bequests to Bow parish for charitable and religious purposes was, in 1885, "equivalent to a capital sum of not less than £14,000". and Coborn Street, the Coborn Arms public house, and the Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health.

She is buried at Bow Church, where a memorial to her (as Prisca Coburne) opposite that of her stepdaughter records her charitable bequests.