“BANJO” PATERSON IS DEAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 33, 8 February 1941, Page 6

“BANJO” PATERSON IS DEAD

WROTE “THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER” MEMBER OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION. SYDNEY, Feb. 5. The death has occurred of Mr. Andrew' Barton Paterson, familiarly known as "Banjo” Paterson, whose poems and ballads of Australian bush life have made his name a household word throughout the Commonwealth. He was 76 years old.

Andrew Barton (“Banjo”) Paterson was born in 1864. He studied law and practised as a solicitor until 1900, being admitted to the profession by the Supreme Court of New South Wales. When the Boer War began he obtained a commission from leading Australian newspapers, including the Sydney Morning Herald, to represent them in the eld and used his experience as a bushman (he was the son of a pastoralist) to great advantage. He rode to Bloemfontein ahead of the British Army and mobilised the leading residents to surrender the town. During the Spanish-American War he went to the Philippines as war correspondent and later copered the Boxer Rebellion. In the World War he enlisted and served rst as an ambulance driver and then with the remount Service. He edited several journals and was regarded as an authority' on horses. His work in collecting old Australian bush songs and his own strongly Australian output (including "The Man from Snowy River”) made him a nationallyfamous and nationally-admired fig/ e. ■ Latterly he lived at Double Bay, Syd-1 neyy *