Cosmo Gordon Logie
Surgeon-General Cosmo Gordon Logie FRSE | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 August 1820 Bengal, India |
| Died | 6 April 1886 (aged 65) Paddington, London |
| Education | University of Edinburgh |
| Known for | Medical author |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Military surgeon |
Surgeon-General Cosmo Gordon Logie FRSE (1820–1886) was a military surgeon and medical author of Scots descent in the 19th century.
Life[edit]
He was born in Bengal in India on 25 August 1820, the son of Elizabeth Sophia (née Arnold), daughter of Sir John Arnold, and Lt Col William Logie of Speymouth.[1]
He was sent home to Scotland to study and trained in medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MD in 1840. He followed in his father's footsteps and joined the British Army as an Assistant Surgeon to the Rifle Brigade in 1841.[2] In 1862 he became Surgeon Major to the Royal Horse Guards.
In 1871 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer was Alexander Hamilton LLB.[3]
He retired in 1875 at the rank of Deputy Surgeon General and died at Paddington in London on 6 April 1886.
Publications[edit]
- On the Cattle Disease (1866)
- The Causes of the Premature Decline of the Cavalry Soldier (1869)
Family[edit]
He married Mary Maria Kean (1843–1898) the daughter of the eminent actor Charles John Kean in 1876, when he was 55 and she was 32. Together they had a son Charles Harry Gordon Logie (1876–1897). He had two illegitimate children prior to his marriage, Cosmo Gordon Logie Smale (1856–1908) to a Miss Smale; and Charles Arnold Boswell (1866-1960) to Isabella Boswell.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Three Logie's ~ British Military Leaders". www.lineagekeeper.com. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
- ^ London Gazette 5 October 1841
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ^ "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
- 1820 births
- 1886 deaths
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- British people in colonial India
- 19th-century British medical doctors
- 19th-century Scottish medical doctors
- British Army regimental surgeons
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Royal Army Medical Corps officers
- British Army brigadiers
- Rifle Brigade officers
- Royal Horse Guards officers
- 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons officers