Dictionary of Indian Biography/Conolly, Arthur
CONOLLY, ARTHUR (1807–1842?)
Son of Valentine Conolly : born July 2, 1807 : educated at Rugby and Addiscombe : went to India in the same ship as Bishop Heber : joined the Bengal Cavalry, 1823 : at Bhartpur, 1826 : from leave in England e returned to India through Central Asia, via St. Petersburg, Tiflis, Teheran, Astrabad: nearly killed by the Turcomans on his way to Khiva : from Astrabad to Mashad, Herat, Kandahar, Sind : wrote an account of his journey : was in the Political Department in Rajputana, 1834–8 : Captain : made another journey via Vienna, Constantinople, Bagdad, Teheran and Herat : joined Macnaghten's Staff at Kabul, 1840 : in Sep. he was sent as Envoy to Khiva, via Merv, and to Khokand, and, on the invitation of the Amir Nasirulla of Bokhara, sent through Stoddart, went on there, but was treacherously imprisoned, in Oct. or Dec. 1841 : he and Stoddart were executed in captivity, probably on June 17, 1842. His few letters described their sufferings in their dungeon : his prayer-book, full of his writing, was delivered to his sister in London in 1862.