LOGAN, George. Entered Madras army 1819; captain 41 Madras N.I. 27 Jany. 1831, major 19 Sep. 1843 to 6 Oct. 1851; lieut.-col. of 2 European regiment 6 Oct. 1851 to 1853 and 1854–5; lieut.-col. of 41 N.I. 1855–60, of 6 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Eastbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 4 Nov. 1870.
LOGAN, James (son of a merchant). b. Aberdeen about 1794; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal college, Aberdeen; his reading ticket at British museum dated from 1821; a journalist in London, afterwards clerk in an architect’s office; made a pedestrian tour in Scotland 1826; a transcriber on catalogue of British museum Dec. 1838 to July 1840; secretary of Highland society of London several years; wrote much in Transactions of the Gaelic society of London, of which he was the Father; a brother of the Charterhouse, London, expelled 1866; F.S.A.; author of The Scottish Gael or Celtic manners as preserved among the Highlanders 2 vols. 1831, 2 ed. 1876; Gaelic gatherings or the highlanders at home 1848; and of the letterpress to R. R. Mac Ian’s The clans of the Scottish Highlands 2 vols. 1843–9, new ed. 1857. d. London, April 1872. James Logan’s Scottish Gael, new ed. (1876) memoir pp. ix–xx; R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 310–11.
LOGAN, James Richardson. Went to the Straits Settlements about 1835; settled at Penang, Prince of Wales’s Island; started at Singapore in 1847 the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, which he edited for about 10 years; started and edited the Penang Gazette; notary public of supreme court of Prince of Wales’s Island; a member of Asiatic Society. d. Penang 20 Oct. 1869.
LOGAN, Robert Abraham (son of Patrick Logan, captain 57 foot). b. 26 July 1824; ensign 41 foot 26 Oct. 1841; ensign 57 foot 19 Nov. 1841, lieut.-col. 24 April 1872, placed on h.p. 26 July 1876; commanded 57 foot in New Zealand war 1861, took the Maori Pah 1863; commanded brigade depots 49 and 50 at Hounslow 1877; M.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 6 May 1882; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. 28 Glen Eldon road, Streatham near London 27 Jany. 1890.
LOGAN, William (son of a customer weaver). b. Damhead near Hamilton, Lanarkshire 1813; a loom weaver; a district missionary in St. Giles’, London, then in Leeds, Rochdale 1840, Glasgow, again at Rochdale and at Bradford; established a temperance dining room, the profits of which he distributed to the poor; attended persons stricken with fever; great friend of David Gray of Luggie the poet, and the soother of his dying hours 1861; the friend of Janet Hamilton the poet of Coatbridge, who d. 1873; author of An exposure of female prostitution in London, Leeds and Rochdale 1843; The moral statistics of Glasgow 1849; Words of comfort for parents bereaved of little children 1861, 8 ed. 1874; The great social evil 1871; The early heroes of the temperance reformation 1873. d. Glasgow 16 Sep. 1879. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men, ii 177–8 (1886), portrait.
LOGAN, Sir William Edmond (2 son of Wm. Logan, baker, d. 1841). b. Montreal 20 April 1798; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; in counting-house of his uncle Hart Logan in London 1818–29; manager of copper-smelting works at Swansea 1831–8; demonstrated the important fact that the stratum of clay underlying coal-beds was the soil in which the coal vegetation grew; director of the geological survey of Canada 1842–70; discovered the Eozoon Canadense, the earliest known life, in Laurentian strata 1858; Canadian comr. at Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, and at Paris exhibition 1855; F.R.S. 5 June 1851, royal medallist 1867; received cross of Legion of Honour 1855; Wollaston medallist of Geological Soc. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; founded at cost of 20,000 dollars the Logan chair of geology in McGill university, Montreal 1872; D.C.L. of Lennoxville univ. 1855; LL.D. of McGill univ. 1856; F.G.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; author with T. S. Hunt of A sketch of the geology of Canada 1856. d. Castle Malgwin, Pembrokeshire 22 June 1875. bur. Llechryd church, Cardiganshire. B. J. Harrington’s Life of W. E. Logan. Montreal (1883), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 228–34; Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxii 76–80 (1876); Wallich’s Eminent men of the day (1870), portrait ix; I.L.N. xviii 487–8 (1851), portrait.
LOGAN, William Hugh (son of a writer to the signet). Apprentice to a bank in Edinb.; manager of a bank at Berwick-on-Tweed; banker at Berwick; twice mayor of Berwick; sheriff; supplied Mr. R. H. Wyndham with all his occasional addresses, dramas and burlesques for theatre royal, Edinb.; edited Edinburgh theatrical and musical review, numbers 5 to 34 the last 1835; writer of Le Bas Bleu, farce, T.R. Edinb. 30 March 1836; Rummio and Judy, burlesque 183-; Absent without leave, farce, Strand theatre, London 1837; Babes in the wood, pantomime, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 19 Dec. 1859; Shadows, farce, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 1862 and many other pieces; author of Memoir of Archibald Maclaren, dramatist. Edinb. 1835, anon.; The Scottish banker 1839, 3 ed. 1847; On the law and practice of bills of exchange; and of a short-lived serial called The dramatic spectator. By Poz, Quiz and Co. Edinb. 1837; edited Fragmenta Scoto-Dramatica 1715–1758. Edinb. 1835, anon.; A Pedlar’s pack of ballads and songs. Edinb. 1869. d. Jany. 1883. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland (1868) 66–8; J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage (1888) 34, 474, 478.
LOGIE, William. b. Kirkwall 23 Feb. 1786; presbyterian minister Ladykirk 1811–24; minister of Kirkwall 1824 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. March 1854; author of God sending and withdrawing the pestilence 1832; Sermons on the services of the church, with memoir and portrait. Lond. 1857. d. Kirkwall 5 Sep. 1856.
LOGIN, Sir John Spencer (eld. son of John Login of Stromness, Orkney). b. Stromness 9 Nov. 1809; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1831; surgeon to Bengal horse artillery 1832, to the Nizam’s army 1834, in Afghan campaign 1838 and in mission to Herat 1839; surgeon British residency, Lucknow; postmaster in Oude, superintendent of hospitals to king of Oude 1841; in Punjaub army 1848–9, in charge of treasuries of Sikh government, the citadel of Lahore, the post office in the Punjaub; guardian of maharajah Duleep Singh 1849 to 1858; surgeon 17 April 1848, retired 18 April 1858; knighted at Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1854; resided 5 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London. d. Felixstowe, Suffolk 18 Oct. 1863. Sir John Login and Duleep Singh (1890), portrait.
LOGIN, Thomas. b. Stromness, Orkney 1823; in public works department India 1844, engaged in construction of Ganges canal 1847–54; executive engineer of the Darjeeling roads 1857; superintending engineer at Umballa 1870; author of papers on Benefit of irrigation in India and on construction of irrigating canals, for which he received Telford premium from Instit. of Civil engineers; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; M.I.C.E. 19 May 1868. d. while inspecting the Thibet road in the Punjaub 5 June 1874. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix 205 (1878).