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Robert Logan (2 April 1863 – 4 February 1935) was a New Zealand runholder, local politician, military leader and administrator. He was born in Langton, Berwickshire, Scotland on 2 April 1863. Logan migrated to New Zealand from Scotland in 1881 aged 19. He became a farmer and Mounted Rifles volunteer and a member of the New Zealand Staff Corps, and rose to command the Auckland Military District just prior to the War. Colonel Robert Logan was a key figure in the wartime administration of Western Samoa and was subsequently decorated by the French Government. He remained the Military Administrator and British representative to Samoa from the initial occupation to the end of the War, and was awarded the Croix de Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in December 1919 ‘in recognition of valuable services in Samoa during the first year of the military occupation of that territory’.〔London Gazette, 15 December 1919, p.15578; W. McDonald, Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War 1914–1918, Napier: Helen McDonald, 2001, p.183.〕 In Samoa he tried to win local sentiment but struggled with complex economic and indigenous issues, and significantly mishandled the arrival of the influenza pandemic in November 1918, resulting in over 7,500 deaths.〔 Munro, D., ‘Logan, Robert 1863 – 1935’, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 7 July 2005, http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/ (5 Jan 06).〕 Logan left Samoa in January 1919 and was condemned for negligence in his handling of the Samoan influenza outbreak by a New Zealand commission of inquiry (American Samoa was quarantined by the Governor, John Martin Poyer, and had no influenza deaths). He was subsequently posted to the retired list in December 1919. He returned to Lanarkshire, Scotland, and died in 1935.〔Brewer, Mark E., New Zealand and the Legion of Honour: The Great War, ''The Volunteers: Journal of the New Zealand Military Historical Society'', 2011.〕 ==References== *(Obituary in ''Evening Post'' 8 February 1935 ) *(Obituary in ''Auckland Star'' 8 February 1935 ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Logan (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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