Banjo Patterson

He spent his early years growing up on his family station becoming familiar with and learning the ways of the drovers, teamsters and other bush workers. His parents, Andrew Bogle and Rose Isabella Paterson were graziers. His early education took place at home under the supervision of a tutor and then attended the bush school in Binalong. From the age of 10 he attended the Sydney Grammar School. After completing school, he was 16 years old when he was articled to a Sydney firm of solicitors. In 1886 he was acknowledged as a solicitor and formed the legal partnership, Street and Paterson. During those years, he began publishing verses in the bulletin and Sydney mail under the name ‘B” and ‘Banjo”.

During his younger years, his father, from a Scottish background took the opportunity to teach his son the traditional Scottish ballads which later on influenced him to write traditional songs. He was also inspired to write poems as his Gran

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