Editing Banjo Paterson (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Banjo Paterson with wife Alice and daughter Grace, ca. 1900-1912, by Lionel Lindsay (6386735113).jpg|thumb|left|Paterson with his wife Alice and daughter Grace, photographed by [[Lionel Lindsay]]]]
On 8 April 1903, he married Alice Emily Walker, of Tenterfield Station, in St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, in [[Tenterfield]], [[New South Wales]].<ref>''Banjo Paterson-His Life'', Tenterfield Tourism</ref><ref>[http://www.bushverse.com/paterson/paterverse.htm ''The Verse of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607203724/http://www.bushverse.com/paterson/paterverse.htm |date=7 June 2007 }} Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music; Accessed on 6 June 2007</ref> Their first home was in Queen Street, Woollahra. The Patersons had two children, Grace (born in 1904) and Hugh (born in 1906).

Paterson had been previously engaged to Sarah Riley for eight years, but this was abruptly called off in 1895 following a visit to her at Dagworth Station in Queensland where she was visiting the Macpherson family. It was here that Paterson met his fiancée's best friend from school days, Christina Macpherson, who composed the music for which he then wrote the lyrics of the famous [[Waltzing Matilda]]. However, following this collaboration Paterson was suddenly asked to leave the property, leading historians to conclude that he was a womanizer and had engaged in a scandalous romantic liaison with Macpherson.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Banjo and Matilda : the story of Waltzing Matilda|last=Forrest|first=Peter|date=2007|publisher=Shady Tree|others=Forrest, Sheila, 1953-|isbn=9780980351507|location=Darwin, N.T.|oclc=225318439}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Waltzing Matilda : the secret history of Australia's favourite song|first=Dennis|last=O'Keeffe|date=2012|publisher=Allen & Unwin|isbn=9781742377063|location=Crows Nest, N.S.W.|oclc=780413544}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/mistress-the-true-story-of-mistresses-and-their-men-chapter-8-the-love-triangle-behind-waltzing-matilda/news-story/a8804da5d3df91db3c2cde9f16b5eb13|title=Mistress: The true story of mistresses and their men. Chapter 8: The love triangle behind 'Waltzing Matilda'|last=Benns|first=Matthew|date=31 October 2013|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=18 April 2018|archive-date=22 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022084703/https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/mistress-the-true-story-of-mistresses-and-their-men-chapter-8-the-love-triangle-behind-waltzing-matilda/news-story/a8804da5d3df91db3c2cde9f16b5eb13|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/matilda-a-love-song-says-book/news-story/76939b445cf9ba219eec168588fc28af?|title=Waltzing Matilda simply a love story say historians|date=23 April 2008|work=Courier Mail|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref>

Paterson died of a heart attack in Sydney on 5 February 1941 aged 76.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17725852 |title="Banjo" Paterson dead. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |issue=32,171 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 February 1941 |access-date=17 December 2017 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=22 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222031444/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17725852 |url-status=live }}</ref>