James Richardson Logan (born 10 April 1819 in
Berwickshire
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,
Scotland
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, died 20 October 1869 in
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 ...
,
Straits Settlements
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) was a lawyer who popularised the name
Indonesia
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after it was coined by the English
ethnologist
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George Windsor Earl. He was an editor of the ''
Penang Gazette
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'' 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.
[ Street Names of Georgetown, Penang]
References
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1819 births
1869 deaths
British ethnologists
19th-century Scottish lawyers
19th-century Scottish people
People from Berwickshire
Scottish lawyers
Scottish newspaper editors
British expatriates in Malaysia
People of British Malaya
19th-century British journalists
British male journalists
19th-century British male writers