Abraham Logan (13 August 1816 – 20 December 1873) was the owner and editor of the ''

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''. Also a prominent lawyer, having studied law in

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, Logan played a significant role in the historic transferral of the Straits Settlement to the Colonial Office.Buckley, C. B. (1984). ''An anecdotal history of old times in Singapore 1819-1867'' (pp. 327, 379, 419, 493, 499, 561, 597, 633, 639, 651, 668, 680, 694, 697, 747, 755, 771, 773). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 29 July 2012. His father being Thomas Logan, Abraham Logan was born in Hutton Hall, Berwickshire, Scotland. Secretary to the Singapore Chamber of Commerce from 1850, until his retirement in 1868, Logan was pivotal in the changing of hands of the Straits Settlement. On 1 April 1867, the transfer was finally made, with a bit of help from allies in London. Living most of his life on Pleasant Mountain, Thomson Road, Logan later moved to

Penang Penang ( ms, Pulau Pinang, is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by the Malacca Strait. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai on the Malay ...

in 1869, after the death of his brother,

James Richardson Logan James Richardson Logan (born 10 April 1819 in Berwickshire, Scotland, died 20 October 1869 in Penang, Straits Settlements) was a lawyer who popularised the name Indonesia after it was coined by the English ethnologist George Windsor Earl. He was ...

. Resigning from most of his activities in Singapore, Logan died in Penang on 20 December 1873.Jean Elizabeth DeBernardi (19 February 2004) ''Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community'' Page 49. Stanford University Press. Retrieved 29 July 2012.

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