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Biography
Surgeon-General Cosmo Gordon Logie FRSE (1820–1886) was a military surgeon and medical author of Scots descent in the 19th century.
He was born in Bengal in India on 25 August 1820, the son of Lt Col William Logie of Speymouth, and Elizabeth Sophia Arnold, daughter of Sir John Arnold.
He was sent home to Scotland to study and trained in Medicine at Edinburgh University graduating MD in 1840. He followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the British Army as an Assistant Surgeon to the Rifle Brigade in 1841. In 1862 he became Surgeon Major to the Royal Horse Guards.
In 1871 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Alexander Hamilton LLB.
He retired in 1875 at the rank of Deputy Surgeon General and died at Paddington in London on 6 April 1886.
Publications
- On the Cattle Disease (1866)
- The Causes of the Premature Decline of the Cavalry Soldier (1869)
Family
He married Mary Maria Kean (1843–1898) the daughter of the eminent actor Charles John Kean in 1876, when he was 54 and she was 33. He had one child with Mary: Charles Harry Gordon Logie (1877–1897), but also sired two illegitimate children prior to his marriage: Cosmo Gordon Logie Smail (1856–1908) to a Ms Smail; and Charles Arnold Boswell (b.1860) to Isabella Boswell.