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Born: 1794
Died: 1866
asylum phys and reformer; MD Edin 1821; practiced at Chichester, then Stratford; prof of med London Univ, 1827; lived in Warwick, 1830-8; visiting and resident phys at Hanwell Asylum, 1839-52; published on insanity and asylum methods; converted from Anglicanism to Unitarianism; close friend of James CLARK and a frequent guest of C. BRAY; on council of SDUK; coeditor with A. Tweedie and J. FORBES of the Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine, 1833-5 and co-ed with FORBES (to 1839) of the BR & FOR REV; pres ETHNOL SOC, 1855-6; active in WARWICK AND LEAM- INGTON PHREN SOC, where he read a paper on the "Historical and Cerebral Development of King Robert Brice"; lectured on physical education, physiology, and related subjects at Cheltenham Lit & Phil Soc, 1830s; on committee of PHREN ASSN, 1844; praised by Owenite socialists for exposing how the mass of society was kept physically miserable, deprived and ignorant. (DNB: J. CLARK, Memoir, 1869.)
| Identifier | 242. |
|---|---|
| Type | Person |
| Source | Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989) |
| PDF page | 86 |
| Printed page | 81 |
| Database ID | 808 |
242. CONOLLY, John (1794-1866), asylum phys and reformer; MD Edin 1821; practiced at Chichester, then Stratford; prof of med London Univ, 1827; lived in Warwick, 1830-8; visiting and resident phys at Hanwell Asylum, 1839-52; published on insanity and asylum methods; converted from Anglicanism to Unitarianism; close friend of James CLARK and a frequent guest of C. BRAY; on council of SDUK; coeditor with A. Tweedie and J. FORBES of the Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine, 1833-5 and co-ed with FORBES (to 1839) of the BR & FOR REV; pres ETHNOL SOC, 1855-6; active in WARWICK AND LEAM- INGTON PHREN SOC, where he read a paper on the "Historical and Cerebral Development of King Robert Brice"; lectured on physical education, physiology, and related subjects at Cheltenham Lit & Phil Soc, 1830s; on committee of PHREN ASSN, 1844; praised by Owenite socialists for exposing how the mass of society was kept physically miserable, deprived and ignorant. (DNB: J. CLARK, Memoir, 1869.)