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James Logan
Lawyer and editor of the Penang Gazette in the Straits Settlements · Journalists · Lived 1819 to 1869 · aged 50
James Richardson Logan was a lawyer who popularised the name Indonesia after it was coined by the English ethnologist George Windsor Earl. He was an editor of the Penang Gazette and a former student of Earl who in 1850 published the term 'Indu-nesians' to describe the peoples of the region.
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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.
