Name James Logan | ||
Died October 20, 1869, Penang, Malaysia | ||
James Richardson Logan (b 10 April 1819 Berwickshire, Scotland, d 20 October 1869 Penang, Straits Settlements) was the man who popularised the name Indonesia after it was coined by the English ethnologist George Windsor Earl. He was a prominent lawyer, an editor of the Pinang Gazette and a former student of Earl who in 1850 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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