James Logan

Male, Deceased Person

1819 – 1869

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Who was James Logan?

James Richardson Logan was the man who popularised the name Indonesia after it was coined by the ethnologist George Windsor Earl. He was a prominent lawyer, an editor of the Penang Gazette and a former student of George Windsor Earl, an English ethnologist; in 1850 Earl published the term 'Indu-nesians' to describe the peoples of the region.

Logan died on 20 October 1869 and is buried at the Old Protestant Cemetery in George Town. A marble statue of him stands in the compound of the Penang High Court building. Logan Road is named after him.

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Born
1819
Berwickshire
Died
Oct 20, 1869

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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