Arthur Conolly ( 1807 - 1842 )

Birth: 02 July 1807 Death: In prison in the East (? 17 June 1842) Education: Rugby; Addiscombe College (1822) Career: Went to India as a Cornet in the Bengal Native Light Cavalry; made Lieutenant (1825); seized and plundered by nomads (1829); sent to Kabul (1840), Meru, Khiva and Bukhara (Uzbekistan) - imprisoned in Bukhara (1841) and killed (1842) - meanwhile expelled from the Society probably as could not pay dues; many years later his prayer book recording his imprisonment was delivered by a mysterious stranger to his sister's house in London.