“In private life he was just a hard-working commonsense, level-headed man, without any redeeming vices, less of a quack, less of a showman, and less of a time-server than any public man I ever met.”
About Banjo Paterson
17 February 1864–5 February 1941
Andrew Barton Paterson, known to generations of readers as “Banjo” Paterson, was born on 17 February 1864 at Narrambla station, near Orange in New South Wales. He died in Sydney on 5 February 1941, twelve days short of his seventy-seventh birthday. Between those dates he became one of the most familiar literary voices…