Francis De Groot
Colonel Francis Edward de Groot (24 October 1888 – 1 April 1969) holds a notorious place in Australian history for his high-profile upstaging of New South Wales Premier Jack Lang at the official opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932.
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“Do not conceale no beauty grace,
That’s either in thy minde or face,
Least vertue overcome by vice,
Make men beleeve no Paradice.”
—Sir Francis Kynaston (1587–1642)