In tribute to his distinguished career, Professor Colles was offered a baronetcy in 1839, which he refused.

Upon his retirement as Professor of Surgery, the Members of RCSI passed a resolution which included " We have also to assure you that it is the unanimous feeling of the College, that the exemplary and efficient manner in which you have filled this chair for thirty-two years, has been a principal cause of the success and consequent high character of the School of Surgery in this country."

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Further reading

  • Abraham Colles, Dictionary of Irish Biography, Royal Irish Academy
  • Thomas Kirkpatrick, "Abraham Colles", Irish Journal of Medical Science, June 1931
  • William Doolin, "Abraham Colles and his contemporaries", Journal of the Irish Medical Association, January 1955, vol. 36, no.211
  • K.F. Russell, "Abraham Colles and his fracture", Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, October 1948, volume VIII, no.2 Sidney, Butterworth, 1938 [dates in source conflict: either 1938 or 1948]