Kelly College, near the town, was founded by Admiral Benedictus Marwood Kelly, and opened in 1877 for the education of his descendants and the orphan sons of naval officers.
After the fall of John Kelly he became the leader of Tammany Hall (q.v.), and for some time almost completely controlled the organization.
The district became a centre of the fighting between the Gurkhas and the rebels, and was not finally cleared until October 1858 by Colonel Kelly.
They professed to raise spirits by incantation; and Kelly dictated the utterances to Dee, who wrote them down and interpreted them.
Kelly (London, 1853; new edition, 1873), remains the only general history of Austria in the English language.
