Charles Collignon (surgeon)

Charles Collignon FRS (30 January 1725 – 1 October 1785) was a British surgeon and Cambridge's professor of anatomy.

[1] He is known for composing a tune called University which is traditionally used for George Herbert's hymn "The God of Love My Shepherd Is".

An Enquiry Into the Structure of the Human Body, Relative to Its Supposed Influence on the Morals of Mankind ran to 67 pages and it was published by Cambridge University.

[1] After he died in Cambridge in 1785, The Medical Works of Charles Collignon MD was published.

[6] Collignon's daughter Catherine made a £1000 bequest to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge where her father had worked in 1832.