Henry Valentine Conolly

Henry Valentine Conolly (5 December 1806 – 11 September 1855) was an East India Company official in the Madras Presidency who served as a District Collector of Malabar.

He was murdered in Calicut by Malabar Muslims for the actions he sought to take against their leader Sayid Fasal Pukkoya Tangal of Mampuram Mosque.

Leaders of different regions held a meeting at the home of Palamadathil Puthupparambil Kunhali, a noble family head and philanthropist from Kuttoor, near Vengara, to discuss the protest and campaign against Conolly for his active role in the exile of Sayyid Fazal.

[8] At about 9 p.m. on the evening of 11 September 1855, Conolly was attacked and killed at the Collector's Residence at West Hill Bungalow, Calicut by a small group of Mappilas.

[9] 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).