Banjo paterson yass
The man from snowy river!
PATERSONAndrew Barton
solicitor, journalist, war correspondent, soldier, author and poet 1864-1941
Banjo Paterson was the eldest of seven children of Andrew Bogle Paterson grazier who migrated in 1850 to the Orange district, and Rose Isabella.
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He was educated at the bush school at Binalong and at Sydney Grammar School. He then served his articles, admitted as a solicitor in 1886, practicing in a partnership.
While at Sydney Grammar he lived at Gladesville with his grandmother Emily Barton, a well-read woman who fostered his love of poetry.
His father had had verses published in the Bulletin, and Paterson began writing verses as a law student, adopting the pen name 'The Banjo' after a station horse. His ballads, published in The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses in 1895, brought him celebrity status at home and in England.
On outbreak of the Second Boer War he was commissioned by the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age as their war correspondent; Paterson sen