Frank Lascelles Jardine

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Frank Lascelles Jardine

1841–1919

A frontier settler and early pastoralist in far north Queensland, he is remembered for the dramatic overland journey that helped drive cattle to the tip of Cape York. His life became closely tied to Somerset, where he spent decades as one of the region’s best-known pioneers.

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Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland

Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland

by Alexander Jardine, Frank Lascelles Jardine

About the author

Born in 1841, Francis Lascelles Jardine was an Australian pioneer associated with the early European settlement of Cape York Peninsula. He is best known for the 1864 expedition in which he and his brother Alexander led cattle overland from Rockhampton to Somerset, a difficult journey that became one of the better-known episodes in Queensland frontier history.

Jardine later settled at Somerset on Cape York, where he lived for many years and became identified with pastoral life in the far north. Accounts of his life often describe him as a prominent figure in the district during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He died in 1919. Today he is remembered mainly through historical writing about northern Queensland, the Jardine overland route, and the early colonial history of Cape York.