Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Collignon, Catherine

by Thompson Cooper

COLLIGNON, CATHERINE (1755–1832), translator, was the daughter of Dr. Charles Collignon [q. v.] She translated from the French of the Abbé Ladvocat 'An Historical and Biographical Dictionary,' 4 vols, 8vo, Cambridge. 1792. 2nd edition. 1799-1801. Miss Collignon died at Bromley, Kent, on 4 Feb. 1832. By her will she left 1,000l. stock to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

[Gent, Mag. cii. pt. i. p. 187; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), p. 1297.]

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