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Paterson, Andrew Barton

Paterson, Andrew Barton

Male 1864 - 1941  (76 years)

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  • Name Paterson, Andrew Barton 
    Moved 1864  "Buckinbah", Obley, NSW Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Born 17 Feb 1864  "Narrambla", Orange, NSW Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Moved 1870  "Illalong", Yass, NSW Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Moved 1874  "Rockend", Gladesville, NSW Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Final year at Sydney Grammar was 1881.
    Education 1882  Sydney University, Sydney, NSW Find all individuals with events at this location 
    law 
    • Paterson left university in 1880.
    Employment 1882  A Law Firm, Sydney, Nsw Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Description: as editor
    Military Enlist 1915  Wimereux, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 5 Feb 1941  Sydney, NSW Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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 Find all individuals with events at this location,   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 Find all individuals with events at this location,   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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Moved 1912  Grenfell, NSW Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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
    Link to Google MapsMoved - 1864 - "Buckinbah", Obley, NSW Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 17 Feb 1864 - "Narrambla", Orange, NSW Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMoved - 1870 - "Illalong", Yass, NSW Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMoved - 1874 - "Rockend", Gladesville, NSW Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsSchool - 1875 - Sydney Grammer School, College Street, Darlinghurst, NSW Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - 1889 - South Africa Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - 1901 - The Sydney Morning Herald Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - 1903 - The Evening News Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMoved - 1908 - "Coodra Vale", Wee Jasper, NSW Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMoved - 1912 - Grenfell, NSW Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMilitary Enlist - 1915 - Wimereux, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - 1919 - The Sydney Sportsman Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCremated - Feb 1941 - Northern Suburbs Crematorium, North Ryde, NSW Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • 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.