James Logan
Lawyer and editor of the Penang Gazette in the Straits Settlements
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| Intro | Lawyer and editor of the Penang Gazette in the Straits Settlements | |
| A.K.A. | James Richardson Logan | |
| A.K.A. | James Richardson Logan | |
| Places | United Kingdom | |
| was | Editor Journalist Lawyer | |
| Work field | Journalism Law | |
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| Birth | 1819 | |
| Death | 1869 (aged 50 years) |
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James Richardson Logan (b 10 April 1819 Berwickshire, Scotland, d 20 October 1869 Penang, Straits Settlements) was a lawyer who popularised the name Indonesia after it was coined by the English ethnologist George Windsor Earl. He was an editor of the Penang Gazette and a former student of Earl who in 1850 published the term 'Indu-nesians' to describe the peoples of the region. In 1847, while living in Singapore, Logan founded a scholarly periodical, the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, and both edited and contributed to the journal until 1862.
Logan died on 20 October 1869 and is buried at the Old Protestant Cemetery in George Town, Malaysia. A marble statue of him stands in the compound of the Penang High Court building. Logan Road is named after him.