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Chauffeur= A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or limousine.Originally, such drivers were often personal employees of the vehicle owner, but now in many cases specialist chauffeur service companies or individual drivers provide both driver and vehicle for hire, although there are service companies that just provi...
Cooks - Great House=Please add profiles of those people who were cooks in a Great House to this project. For Cooks who do not fit this description please add them to also be aware that there are many projects for Great Houses (Historic Buildings) so worth discovering these to associate profiles with them too.The cook in an English great house was traditionally female; today's residences may emp...
Great House - Head Gardeners= Pictured Tom Carter 'Although only 26 when he became head gardener of Butleigh Court in 1893, Tom Carter was a third-generation estate gardener and had immense knowledge of all things botanical. He needed it: With six other gardeners working under him, Carter was responsible for seven acres of manicured lawns and formal gardens, flower and vegetable beds, greenhous...
Great House - Support grounds staff=For all Great House Support Grounds Staff apart from Gardeners* All Gardeners can be added to Gardeners, Horticulturists, Nurserymen & Agriculturists Please add profiles that fit these other Support Grounds Staff Occupations to this project* Groundskeepers * Stablehands * Handyman ==Descriptions of these Great House positions:=====Groundskeepers===The general...
Tutors= Pictured Right Francis Ayscough, Dean of Bristol and tutor to George III of England with his pupils. By Richard Wilson, circa 1749. A tutor is an instructor who gives private lessons. Shadow education is a name for private supplementary tutoring that is offered outside the mainstream education system.Normally, a tutor will help a student who is struggling in a subject of some sort. Also...
Maids - Great House= A maid , or housemaid or maidservant, is a female person employed in domestic service. Although now usually found only in the most wealthy of households, in the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work===Support Household Staff:===* Lady's Maid Traditionally, the lady's maid was not as high-ra...
House Keeper - Great House=In the great houses of yesteryear the housekeeper could be a woman of considerable power in the domestic arena. The housekeeper of times past had her room (or rooms) cleaned by junior staff, her meals prepared and laundry taken care of, and with the butler presided over dinner in the Servants' Hall. Unlike other servants, she was addressed as Mrs regardless of her mar...