Paterson, Andrew Barton

1864 - 1941  (76 years)

• Name	Paterson, Andrew Barton
  Moved	1864	"Buckinbah", Obley, NSW
  Born	17 Feb 1864	"Narrambla", Orange, NSW
  Gender	Male
  Moved	1870	"Illalong", Yass, NSW
  Moved	1874	"Rockend", Gladesville, NSW
  	Description: He lived with his grandmother Emily Mary Barton and attended Sydney Grammer School. Rose's eldest son, Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson, had been a resident at Rockend in the 1870s while he attended Sydney Grammar School.
  School	1875	Sydney Grammer School, College Street, Darlinghurst, NSW
  	Final year at Sydney Grammar was 1881.
  Education	1882	Sydney University, Sydney, NSW
  	law
  	Paterson left university in 1880.
  Employment	1882	A Law Firm, Sydney, Nsw
  Published	1885
  	Description: his first poem, "El Mahdi to the Australian Troops" in the Bulletin
  Mentioned	1886
  	Description: He was admitted as an attorney, solicitor and proctor of the Supreme Court of NSW
  Employment	1889	South Africa
  	Paterson was a Foreign Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald covering the Boer War. He performed well sending back interesting dispatches and participating enthusiastically in the conflict. He saw and reported a lot of action and even liberated Bloernfontein with a small party of journalists on horseback who arrived ahead of the allied troops. He also met and interiewed Kitchener, Churchill and Kipling, who became a lifelong freind. Paterson returned to Australia and travelled around the country delivering lectures on the Boer War.
  Published	1889
  	Description: "Clancy of the Overflow" in the Bulletin
  Published	1895
  	Description: Waltzing Matilda
  Published	17 Oct 1895
  	Description: "The Man from Snowy River & other verses" This was Banjos first book and has sold more copies than any other book of Australian poetry.
  Employment	1901	The Sydney Morning Herald
  	Description: as a Foreign Correspondent to cover the Boxer Rebellion in China
  Published	1902
  	Description: "Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses"
  Employment	1903	The Evening News
  	Description: as editor
  Military Enlist	1915	Wimereux, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
  	Description: Australian forces as an ambulance driver On the outbreak of war, Paterson tried unsuccessfully to cover the war as a correspondent. He then enlisted in an Australian remount division and was commissioned a lieutenant in the AIF and posted to the Middle East, where he supervised the allied horses so successfully that he reached the rank of Major. His wife also served in a nearby hospital in Ismailia.
  Published	1917
  	Description: "Saltbush Bill, JP and Other Verses"
  Employment	1919	The Sydney Sportsman
  	Description: as editor
  Military Disch	1919
  	Description: Australian forces
  Retired	1930
  Published	1933
  	Description: "The Animals that Noah Forgot"
  Published	1936
  	Description: "The Shearer's Colt", a novel
  Awarded	1 Jan 1939
  	Description: Order of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his contributions to literature
  Cremated	Feb 1941	Northern Suburbs Crematorium, North Ryde, NSW
  Died	5 Feb 1941	Sydney, NSW
  	Description: a heart attack "Banjo" died of a heart attack in an unnamed hospital. Would have been one close to where he lived no doubt. He went in for a short illness. He was sitting in a chair waiting to go home again when he died.
  Person ID	I0147	Barton Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Jul 2010

  
  

  Father	Paterson, Andrew Bogle,   b. 1833, Scotland ,   d. 8 Jun 1889  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Barton, Rose Isabella,   b. 30 Dec 1844,   d. 24 Feb 1893  (Age 48 years)
  Married	1863
  Family ID	F0051	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Walker, Alice Emily,   b. 1877, NSW ,   d. 23 Jun 1963  (Age 86 years)
  Married	8 Apr 1903
  	While touring Australia in 1902, Paterson met Alice Emily Walker at Tenterfield Station in northern New South Wales. He married her at the station on April 8, 1903. They made their home in Woolahra, a suburb of Sydney after he was appointed editor of the Sydney Evening News. His two children were born during this period. Looking for a less stressful and confining life, he resigned as editor and bought "Coodra", a property in the Yass district. This decision ended in failure and Paterson turned for a short time to wheat farming at Grenfell.
  Moved	1908	"Coodra Vale", Wee Jasper, NSW
  Moved	1912	Grenfell, NSW
  Children	1. Paterson, Grace,   b. 1904,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Paterson, Hugh Barton,   b. 1906,   d. 14 Nov 1977  (Age 71 years)
  Last Modified	17 Jul 2010
  Family ID	F0054	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Moved - 1864 - "Buckinbah", Obley, NSW Born - 17 Feb 1864 - "Narrambla", Orange, NSW Moved - 1870 - "Illalong", Yass, NSW Moved - 1874 - "Rockend", Gladesville, NSW School - 1875 - Sydney Grammer School, College Street, Darlinghurst, NSW Employment - 1889 - South Africa Employment - 1901 - The Sydney Morning Herald Employment - 1903 - The Evening News Moved - 1908 - "Coodra Vale", Wee Jasper, NSW Moved - 1912 - Grenfell, NSW Military Enlist - 1915 - Wimereux, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Employment - 1919 - The Sydney Sportsman Cremated - Feb 1941 - Northern Suburbs Crematorium, North Ryde, NSW  = Link to Google Earth
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  He trained as a solicitor (a type of lawyer) but also contributed some verse to the Sydney Bulletin under the pseudonym of The Banjo, taken from the name of a horse. He later gave up law to become a journalist, and went to South Africa to report on the Boer War. When World War I broke out he sought work as a war correspondent, but failed to get it. He then went to work driving an ambulance in France, and later became a Remount Officer with the Australian forces then in Egypt. After returning to Australia in 1919 he continued as a writer. The works for which Paterson is famous were mostly written before the First World War, and are collected in three books of poems, The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895), Rio Grandes Last Race and Other Verses (1902), and Saltbush Bill, J.P. and Other Verses (1917). His prose works include An Outback Marriage (1906), and Three Elephant Power and Other Stories (1917), the latter of which is a collection of tall tales and serious (but often humourous) reporting. In fact, above all else it is perhaps Patersons sense of humour that sets him apart from such balladists as Rudyard Kipling and Robert Service. It should also be noted that Paterson was writing his ballads before either of these became well-known, and there was little, if any, influence from either side. More likely, Paterson was influenced by the Scottish tradition of poetry (Paterson was of Scottish descent) which had been popularized in Australia by Adam Lindsay Gordon and others. Patersons most famous work is Waltzing Matilda, written in 1895, and now an unofficial anthem of Australia. The Man from Snowy River has since become the inspiration for a well-known movie of the same name. Clancy of the Overflow is similarly well known.