Logan Memorial

You can end your Penang colonial tour by meeting a local hero. If Captain Francis Light is credited with founding Penang and adding it to British East India’s territories, James Richardson Logan, a Scottish, is credited with a successful campaign to end the Kolkata-based British rule over the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca and Singapore. In 1867, his efforts made this territory part of the Crown Colony, reporting directly to the colonial office in London. An ethnologist, explorer and a lawyer by profession, he championed for the rights of Asian communities. Two years after the administrative restructuring, he died during one of his explorations and his remains were buried in George Town.
James Logan was one of most respected personalities in Penang. He helped and influenced many during his lifetime, and people of the Settlement subsequently built this memorial dedicated to him. The memorial on Light Street, opposite the High Court building, carries four figures representing the cardinal virtues that James Logan is known to have demonstrated—of temperance or the virtue of using balance, of wisdom or the virtue of using prudence, of fortitude or the ability to persevere in tough times, and of justice or the virtue of promoting fair play.

Tips: If you walk east on Light Street from this memorial, you will return to Victoria Memorial Clock Tower and Beach Street, where you started this tour from.