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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.<br />
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== Life ==<br />
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lineagekeeper.com/2010/06/three-logies-british-military-leaders.html|title=Three Logie's ~ British Military Leaders|website=www.lineagekeeper.com|access-date=6 May 2017}}</ref><br />
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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.<ref>London Gazette 5 October 1841</ref> In 1862 he became Surgeon Major to the [[Royal Horse Guards]].<br />
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In 1871 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]], his proposer was Alexander Hamilton LLB.<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
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He retired in 1875 at the rank of Deputy Surgeon General and died at [[Paddington]] in [[London]] on 6 April 1886.<br />
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==Publications==<br />
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*''On the Cattle Disease'' (1866)<br />
*''The Causes of the Premature Decline of the Cavalry Soldier'' (1869)<br />
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==Family==<br />
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He married Mary Maria Kean (1843–1898) the daughter of the eminent actor [[Charles John Kean]] in 1876, when he was 54 and she was 33. Together they had a son Charles Harry Gordon Logie (1877–1897). He had two illegitimate children prior to his marriage, Cosmo Gordon Logie Smail (1856–1908) to a Ms Smail; and Charles Arnold Boswell (born 1860) to Isabella Boswell.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p64374.htm|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=6 May 2017}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1820 births]]<br />
[[Category:1886 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century British medical doctors]]<br />
[[Category:British Army regimental surgeons]]<br />
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]]<br />
[[Category:British non-fiction writers]]<br />
[[Category:Royal Army Medical Corps officers]]<br />
[[Category:British Army generals]]<br />
[[Category:Rifle Brigade officers]]<br />
[[Category:Royal Horse Guards officers]]<br />
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