Richard Connolly (monk)
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Richard Hugh Connolly (1873 – 16 March 1948) was a monk of Downside Abbey and a major contributor to Syriac scholarship. Barred for reasons of health from administrative or public roles he was trained by Edmund Bishop and belonged to a notable group of Cambridge Orientalists. He was a major contributor to the Journal of Theological Studies, the Downside Review and an early editor in the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium.