Background
Conny was the son of John Conny, surgeon, and twice mayor of Rochester, was born in or about 1645.
Conny was the son of John Conny, surgeon, and twice mayor of Rochester, was born in or about 1645.
Magdalen College.
3 May 1679, Bachelor of Medicine 2 May 1682, and Doctor of Medicine 9 July 1685, on which occasion he "denied and protested," because the vice-chancellor caused one Bullard, of New College, to be presented Bachelor of Laws before him. In 1692 he was employed by the admiralty as physician to the sick and wounded landed at Deal. He contributed a paper, in the form of a letter to Doctor Plot, "On a Shower of Fishes," to the "Philosophical Transactions," xx., and is said to have been a successful physician, and to have improved the practice of lithotomy.
He died on 25 May 1713, at the age of sixty-eight, and was buried in Rochester Cathedral.
His portrait is in the Bodleian Picture Gallery and in the lodgings of the president of Magdalen College.
He was a member of Magdalen College, Oxford, and proceeded Bachelor of Arts on 8 June 1676, Master of Arts
