John Conolly

After practising at Lewes, Chichester and Stratford-on-Avon successively, he was appointed professor of the practice of medicine at University College, London, in 1828.

[1] Conolly and Forbes went on to start a new publication in 1836: the 'British and Foreign Medical Review, or, A Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine', for which they shared the editorship from 1836 to 1839.

The Review was read widely in Europe and America, and helped to promote modern methods of treatment and to enhance the reputation of British medicine.

[4] In 1839, Conolly was appointed resident physician to the Middlesex County Asylum at Hanwell (now known as West London Mental Health NHS Trust's St Bernard's Hospital).

Conolly died on 5 March 1866 at Hanwell, where in the later part of his life he had a private asylum[1] called Lawn House.

In line with his father's concerns for humane treatment of the mentally ill, he introduced the concept of rehabilitation to the New Zealand penal system.

[9] Conolly's youngest child, Ann, married Henry Maudsley when she was thirty-six, just two months before her father's death.

It is the first plaque in the scheme to go up in Hanwell and the date of its installation was chosen to support Mental Health Week in the UK.