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'''Henry Valentine Conolly''' (5 December 1806 – 11 September 1855) was an East India Company official in the Madras Presidency who served as a magistrate and collector of Malabar. He took an active role in the establishment of teak plantations to meet the demands for teak in ship-building. He was murdered in [[Kozhikode|Calicut]] by [[Mappila]] - [[Muslim]] for the actions he sought to take on their leader [[Sayid Fasal Pookoya Thangal|Sayid Fasal Pukkoya Tangal]] of [[Mampuram Mosque]].
Leaders of different region held a meeting at home of Palamadathil Puthupparambil Kunhali, a noble family head and a philanthropist of Kuttoor near Vengara to discuss the protest and campaign against Connolly for his active role in exile of Sayyid Fazal.
Mandayappuram mammadunni mooppan and Veeranunni mooppan also participated in the meeting.
[[File:Henry Valentine Conolly Memorial at the St. George's Cathedral, Madras.jpg|thumb|160px|Henry Valentine Conolly Memorial at the [[St. George's Cathedral, Chennai|St. George's Cathedral, Madras]]]]

==Early life==
Henry Conolly was born on 5 December 1806 to Valentine Conolly of 37 Portland Place, London. He and his elder brother [[Arthur Conolly|Arthur]] were educated at [[Rugby School]], Warwickshire. Conolly then moved to [[Madras]], and became a writer in the Madras Civil Service from 19 May 1824. He later served in [[Bellary]] as principal collector. He served as a translator of [[Kannada]], a cashier and as commissioner for settlement of claims in the [[Carnatic region]].<ref name=odnb>{{cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/6093 |author=H. M. Chichester (rev. James Lunt)|chapter= Conolly, Arthur (1806-1855)|title= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004}}</ref><ref>''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' - Page 92 CONOLLY, HENRY VALENTINE (1806-1855)</ref><ref>''Modern English Biography: A-H'' - Frederic Boase - 1892 Page 1693 "CONOLLY, Henry Valentine"</ref>

==Initiatives in India==
[[File:NilamburTeak.jpg|thumb|160px|The Conolly Teak Plot - 2 km from [[Nilambur]]. The plot was named in memory of Henry Conolly, then Malabar District Collector]]
While [[District collector|District Collector and Magistrate]] of [[Malabar District|Malabar]] Conolly helped develop waterways including a canal now known as the [[Conolly Canal]], initiated 1848, and teak plantations. The teak plantation was a pioneering example of systematic forest management. It contained some of the finest pieces of the tropical hardwood teak. The plantations were constructed by the Madras Government for the supply of teak timber to the port of Bombay.<ref>''Outlook Traveller'' May 2008 Vol. 8, n° 5 - Magazine "HV Conolly"</ref><ref>''The Indian Forester'' - Volume 27 1901- Page 622</ref><ref>Dady Rustomji Banaji ''Slavery in British India'' 1933 - Page 125</ref><ref>Kamakshi P. Murti ''India: The Seductive and Seduced "Other" of German Orientalism'' 2001 Page 105</ref> He is also remembered for his planning a coastal waterway in Malabar — what is known today as the Conolly Canal (although the introduction of railways around the time the canal was being completed had eclipsed its importance).<ref>Ramachadran, CK ''Benign faces of the Raj — the Malabar experience'' [[The Hindu]] January 30, 2012 [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-editorialfeatures/benign-faces-of-the-raj-the-malabar-experience/article2843465.ece]</ref>

==Death==
[[File:Conolly headstone - cropped and straightened.jpg|thumb|160px|Conolly's tomb stone at Calicut]]
At about 9p.m. on the evening of 11 September 1855 Conolly was attacked and killed at the Collector's Residence at West Hill Bungalow, [[Kozhikode|Calicut]] by a small group of Mappilas. Conolly was buried in what is now Conolly Park, near South Beach Road; the headstone of his tomb was moved to the premises of the C.S.I. St. Mary's English Church, Calicut in 1997.<ref>Mohan, R. S. L. (1997). ''A Brief History of St. Mary's (English) Church, Kozhikode (Calicut)'', 5 pages.</ref> The murderers, Valassery Emalu, Puliyankunnath Thenu (who had escaped from prison at Calicut a month before) and Haiderman, a hairdresser, were eventually tracked down and shot dead by government forces led by Major Haly and Captain Davis (in an encounter after 6 days at large at [[Edavannappara]] in [[Thiruvambadi]]). The Mappila rebels were using these escaped prisoners to murder Henry Conolly, who had suggested exiling [[Fazal Pookoya Thangal]] of [[Mampuram Mosque|Mambrum]].<ref>William Logan Malabar Manual - Volume 1 1887 - Page 576</ref>

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