Cardinal Barberini, on 10 Jan. 1640 N.S. (ib. p. 537).
[In addition to the works quoted above, reference may be made for full information on Conn's proceedings in England to his own despatches. Most of them are to be found in the transcripts in the British Museum, Add. MSS. 15389–92. Transcripts of others are in the Public Record Office. Dempster states that while he was still at Bologna, that is to say before 1623, he planned (‘est meditatus’) a work called Institutio Principis and also an attack on the enemies of the Scots under the name of Præmetiæ. Of the former no copy exists in the British Museum Library or the Bodleian, and it is not mentioned by Brunet. Possibly, therefore, it was never published or even completed. The latter work was published at Bologna in 1621 under the title of Præmetiæ sive Calumniæ Hirlandorum indicatæ, et Epos; Deipara Virgo Bononiensis ad Xenodochium vitæ. Conn's next work was Vita Mariæ Stuartæ, published at Rome in 1624, another edition being published in the same year at Würzburg; followed by De duplici Statu Religionis apud Scotos libri duo, also published at Rome in 1628. Assertionum Catholicarum libri tres, published at Rome in 1629, is in the Bodleian but not in the British Museum Library.]
CONNELL, Sir JOHN (1765?–1831), lawyer, son of Arthur Connell, merchant in Glasgow, and lord provost of that city, was educated at the university there, and admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1788. He married a daughter of Sir Islay Campbell of Succoth, bart., lord president of the court of session. In 1795 he was appointed sheriff depute of Renfrewshire, and in 1805–6 he was chosen procurator, or law adviser, for the church of Scotland, and enjoyed an extensive practice in church causes. In 1816 he was appointed judge of the court of admiralty, and held this office till 1830, when that court was abolished. In 1822 he received the honour of knighthood on the occasion of the visit of George IV to Edinburgh. He died suddenly in April 1831 at Garscube, the seat of his brother-in-law, Sir Archibald Campbell. He was the author of two books:
- ‘A Treatise on the Law of Scotland respecting Tithes and the Stipends of the Parochial Clergy,’ 3 vols. 1815, of which a second edition in two vols. appeared in 1830.
- ‘A Treatise on the Law of Scotland respecting the erection, union, and disjunction of parishes, the manors and glebes of the parochial clergy, and the patronage of churches,’ 1818. To this a supplement was added in 1823.
[Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, vol. ii.; MS. Minutes of the Faculty of Advocates; private information.]
CONNELLAN, OWEN (1800–1869), Irish scholar, a native of co. Sligo and son of a farmer who claimed descent from the chiefs of Bunnyconnellan in Mayo, and through them from Laoghaire MacNeill, king of Ireland, was born in 1800. He studied Irish literature, and obtained employment as a scribe in the Royal Irish Academy, where he worked for more than twenty years, and copied a great part of the large collections of Irish writings known as the Books of Lecan and of Ballymote. After George IV's visit to Ireland he was appointed Irish historiographer to the king, a post which he also held throughout the reign of William IV. Shortly after the establishment of queen's colleges Connellan was made professor of Irish at Cork, and held the chair till his death, which took place in Dublin in 1869. He published in 1830 a ‘Grammatical Interlineary Version of the Gospel of St. John,’ ‘Grammatical Praxis on the Gospel of St. Matthew,’ ‘Dissertation on Irish Grammar,’ 1834, and compiled the ‘Annals of Dublin’ in Pettigrew and Oulton's ‘Directory’ for 1835. In 1844 he published a ‘Practical Grammar of the Irish Language.’ He admired Sir William Betham, whose ‘Etruria Celtica’ had, he thought, proved the identity of the Irish and Etruscan languages; but the grammar is nevertheless of value as preserving the idiom and pronunciation of Irish in the north of Connaught. In 1846 he published, in a large quarto volume, ‘The Annals of Ireland, translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters.’ This creditable work was superseded by the publication of the full Irish text of the ‘Annals,’ with a translation by O'Donovan. In 1860 Connellan's most important work appeared—a text with translations and notes of the interesting ‘Imtheacht na Tromdhaimhe,’ an ancient tale, which relates how the ‘Tain Bo Cuailgne,’ the most famous story of the Irish bards, was recovered in the time of St. Ciaran.
[Works; information from Connellan Grésaidhe Piobaire, his relative.]
CONNELLAN, THADDEUS (d. 1854), Irish scholar, published an Irish-English dictionary (1814), Irish grammars (1824–5), and translations of parts of the Bible. He died at Sligo, 25 July 1854.
[Cooper's Biog. Dict.]
CONNOR or O'CONNOR, BERNARD, M.D. (1666?–1698), physician and historian, descended from an ancient Irish family, was born in the county of Kerry about 1666. Being brought up as a catholic he was unable to receive a university education in his native country, but he was thoroughly instructed by private tutors. With the intention of
