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Banjo Paterson, circa 1890
Born	Andrew Barton Paterson (1864-02-17)17 February 1864 "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, Australia
Died	5 February 1941(1941-02-05) (aged 76) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Resting place	Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Author, journalist, composer, clerk, poet
Spouse(s)	Alice Emily Walker (m.1903)
Children	2
Relatives	John Paterson (uncle)
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The Gladesville cottage Rockend, where Paterson lived in the 1870s and 1880s

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, CBE (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include "Clancy of the Overflow" (1889), "The Man from Snowy River" (1890) and "

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Banjo Paterson

Australian journalist, author and poet

Banjo Paterson CBE
Banjo Paterson, circa 1890
Born	Andrew Barton Paterson (1864-02-17)17 February 1864 "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, Australia
Died	5 February 1941(1941-02-05) (aged 76) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Resting place	Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation(s)	Author, journalist, composer, clerk, poet
Spouse	Alice Emily Walker (m. )
Children	2
Relatives	John Paterson (uncle)

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, CBE (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author, widely considered one of the greatest writers of Australia's colonial period.^[1]

Born in rural New South Wales, Paterson worked as a lawyer before transitioning into literature, where he quickly gained recognition for capturing the life of the Australian bush. A representative of the Bulletin School of Australian literature, Paterson wrote m

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson (1864-1941), poet, solicitor, journalist, war correspondent and soldier, was born on 17 February 1864 at Narrambla near Orange, New South Wales, eldest of seven children of Andrew Bogle Paterson (d.1889), grazier, and his native-born wife Rose Isabella, daughter of Robert Barton of Boree Nyrang station, near Orange. His father, a lowland Scot, had migrated to New South Wales about 1850, eventually taking up Buckinbah station at Obley in the Orange district.

Barty, as he was known to his family and friends, enjoyed a bush boyhood. When he was 7 the family moved to Illalong in the Yass district. Here, near the main route between Sydney and Melbourne, the exciting traffic of bullock teams, Cobb & Co. coaches, drovers with their mobs of stock, and gold escorts became familiar sights. At picnic race meetings and polo matches, he saw in action accomplished horsemen from the Murrumbidgee and Snowy Mountains country which generated his lifelong enthusiasm for horses and horsemanship and eventually the writing of his f