DNB (Colson, John, 1680-1760; Lucasian professor at Cambridge)
Memoirs of the life and character of Dr. Nicholas Saunderson, late Lucasian Professor of the Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, 1741 t.p. (John Colson)
Watt, R. Bibliogheca Britannica: or a general index to British and foreign literature, 1824 (Colson, Rev. John, MA FRS; an industrious mathematician and professor of mathematics, Cambridge, d. 1760)