1. Captain Patrick Logan was a Scottish army officer who was the commandant of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement from 1826 until his death in 1830 at the hands of Aboriginal Australians.
28 Facts About Patrick Logan
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Patrick Logan was known as a strict commandant of the penal colony to the point of cruelty.
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Patrick Logan was the first European to discover the area which became Ipswich, Queensland and some consider him to be the founder of Queensland.
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Patrick Logan was born in East Renton, Berwickshire, Scotland, the youngest son of Abraham Logan, a Scottish landowner and farmer, and Janet Johnstown.
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Patrick Logan took part in the battles of Salamanca with the retreat from Salamanca; Vittoria; Nivelle and Toulouse.
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Patrick Logan's regiment was sent to Canada in 1814 where he stayed for a year before joining Wellington's Army of Occupation in Paris.
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Patrick Logan left the army during peacetime and returned to Ireland to take up farming.
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Patrick Logan's regiment was ordered to New South Wales, leaving Cork on 5 January 1825.
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Patrick Logan arrived in Sydney, New South Wales, with his regiment on 22 April 1825 aboard the Hooghly.
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The settlement was quite primitive and Patrick Logan embarked on a building program, and on planting maize.
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Patrick Logan designed and oversaw the construction of a hospital, a jail and a windmill.
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Patrick Logan built a surgeon's quarters, barracks and a number of houses in his first year as Commandant.
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Patrick Logan administered crops of wheat and maize at various locations.
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Patrick Logan believed that the settlement was a place to punish the convicts, forcing them to work by hand from sunrise to sunset.
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In 1827 the Attorney General noted that Patrick Logan had in multiple situations ordered that convicts be subject to 150 lashes, justifying the extreme criticism bestowed on him in the contemporary ballad Moreton Bay.
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Patrick Logan systematically explored the outer part of south-east Queensland.
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Patrick Logan discovered the southern entrance to Moreton Bay, now known as the Gold Coast Broadwater.
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Patrick Logan named the McPherson Range, Birnam Range, Teviot Brook and Wilsons Peak.
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Patrick Logan was the first European explorer to visit the upper reaches of the Brisbane River and other places in the vicinity including the areas now known as Esk and the mountain rainforests of Lamington National Park and Mount Barney National Park.
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Patrick Logan was the first European to explore the Bremer River, where he discovered deposits of limestone at a point later to become known as Ipswich.
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Captain Patrick Logan unsuccessfully attempted to climb Mount Barney on 13 and 14 June 1827.
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From atop the summit, which was at the time the highest point reached in Australia, Patrick Logan was able to see the true Mount Warning.
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Patrick Logan named the peak he had just ascended, Mount Hooker, but because his map was lost, the mountain was later given another name, Mount Barney.
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Patrick Logan originally named the current Mount Lindesay, Mount Hooker.
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The first meeting was when they were making a river crossing: a large group of men brandished weapons, rolled boulders down a hill at the group, and shouted 'Commidy Water' which was thought to mean that Patrick Logan should go back across the water.
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In November 1830, Patrick Logan was buried in the Protestant burial ground in Surry Hills, Sydney.
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Patrick Logan had been hated by the convicts because of his strict discipline and program of punishments.
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The Queensland state electorate of Patrick Logan is named for him.