CONOLLY, JOHN (1794-1866), English physician, was born at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, of an Irish family, on May He graduated M.D. at Edinburgh in 1821, and in 1828, after practising at Lewes, Chichester and Stratford-on-Avon, was appointed professor of the practice of medicine at University college, London. In 183o he published a work on the Indications of Insanity. In co-operation with Sir Charles Hastings and Sir John Forbes, he founded in 1832 the association which finally became the British Medical Association. In 1839 he was elected resident physician to the Middlesex County asylum at Hanwell, where he carried out on a large scale the principle of non-restraint in the treatment of the insane. The principle was ultimately ac cepted as fundamental despite continued and strong opposition. In 1844 he ceased to be resident physician at Hanwell, but re mained visiting physician until 1852. He died on March 5, 1866, at Hanwell, where in the later part of his life he had a private asylum. His works include Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums (1847) ; The Treatment of the Insane without Mechanical Restraints (1856) ; and an Essay on Hamlet (1863).