James Richardson Logan Monument

The James Richardson Logan Monument (Logan Memorial) is a marble memorial with a relief portrait of Logan in profile that stands in the compound of the Penang High Court building in George Town. It commemorates James Richardson Logan (1819-1869), a Scottish lawyer and editor of the Penang Gazette who founded and edited the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia (1847-1862) and popularised the name 'Indonesia'. Logan died in Penang on 20 October 1869, is buried at the Old Protestant Cemetery in George Town, and Logan Road is named after him.