MB ChB Manch 1909, DPH 1913.
Connolly was house surgeon at Stafford General Infirmary and St Mary's Hospital Manchester before working as senior resident assistant medical officer at Manchester Union Hospital, Crumpsall, and medical officer at Sale Welfare Centre. Connolly was later honorary anaesthetist at St John's Hospital for Ear, Nose and Throat, Manchester. Connolly died on 10 May 1957.