Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Collins, John (d.1634)
COLLINS, JOHN, M.D. (d. 1634), professor at Cambridge, was born in Surrey, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he gained a fellowship on Lady Margaret's foundation on 7 April 1598. He proceeded B.A. in 1595–6, M.A. in 1599, and M.D. in 1608. Admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians ‘the day after Palm Sunday,’ 1611, he became a fellow on 7 May 1613, censor in 1615, and anatomy lecturer in 1624. On 8 Nov. 1626 he obtained a grant of the office of regius professor of physic at Cambridge for life, ‘with the fee of 40l. per annum, in place of John Gostlin, deceased.’ He died at Cambridge in December 1634. By his will, dated 8 Dec. and proved on 24 Dec. in that year, he bequeathed most of his ‘phisick books’ to St. John's College, and 100l. to buy more (reg. in P. C. C. 108, Seager).
[Munk's Coll. of Phys. (1878), i. 158; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1625–6, p. 579.]