Cosmo Gordon Logie
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Surgeon-General Cosmo Gordon Logie FRSE (1820–1886) was a military surgeon and medical author of Scots descent in the 19th century.
Life
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.lineagekeeper.com/2010/06/three-logies-british-military-leaders.html|title=Three Logie's ~ British Military Leaders|website=lineagekeeper.com|access-date=6 May 2017}}
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.London Gazette 5 October 1841 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.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=5 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}
He retired in 1875 at the rank of Deputy Surgeon General and died at Paddington in London on 6 April 1886.
Publications
- On the Cattle Disease (1866)
- The Causes of the Premature Decline of the Cavalry Soldier (1869)
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Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:British people in colonial India
Category:19th-century British medical doctors
Category:19th-century Scottish medical doctors
Category:British Army regimental surgeons
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:Royal Army Medical Corps officers
Category:British Army brigadiers
Category:Rifle Brigade officers