Early Life
Banfield was born in Liverpool, England the son of Jabez Walter Banfield (1820-1899), printer, and his wife Sarah Ann, née Smith. Banfield was brought while a boy to Australia by his father, who settled at Ararat, Victoria in 1852 and became proprietor of a newspaper, the Ararat Advertiser. Edmund Banfield received his first training in journalism on this paper.
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