Surgeon-General Cosmo Gordon Logie

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(1820–1886) was a military surgeon and medical author of Scots descent in the 19th century.

Life

He was born in

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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. He was sent home to Scotland to study and trained in medicine at the

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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. In 1862 he became Surgeon Major to the

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. In 1871 he was elected a Fellow of the

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, his proposer was Alexander Hamilton LLB. He retired in 1875 at the rank of Deputy Surgeon General and died at

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on 6 April 1886.

Publications

*''On the Cattle Disease'' (1866) *''The Causes of the Premature Decline of the Cavalry Soldier'' (1869)

Family

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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Logie, Cosmo Gordon 1820 births 1886 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 19th-century British 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