 Francis Lascelles Jardine

Francis Lascelles (Frank) Jardine (28 August 1841 – 19 March 1919) was a Scottish-Australian pioneer who was at the forefront of British colonisation and Aboriginal dispossession in the Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait regions of Far North Queensland.Frank Jardine was born on 28 August 1841 at the "Rathluba" property near East Maitland in the British colony of New South Wales.