What is a "Livery Coachman"

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Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 63 Send Message	Grandad Bear	Report	6 Apr 2005 21:13
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 63 Send Message	My Grandfather as well as being a Coachman was a Livery Groom, looked after the horses that pulled the funeral hearse he drove many many moons ago.
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 17 Send Message	LIllian	Report	18 Jan 2005 09:43
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 17 Send Message	I HAVE HORSES .... I ALWAYS ACCOCIATE LIVERY WITH HORSES....SO MAYBE HE WAS THE THE DRIVERS SECOND MAN AND WAS THE ONE WHO SORTED THE HORSES
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 215 Send Message	Dwaffy	Report	18 Jan 2005 09:40
	or he worked for a livery. A place where you kept your horse if you didn't have your own stables, they fed and groomed it for you. Also the equivalant of todays Hertz or Rent-aCar where you could hire a horse or horse and carriage. dave
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 28,261 Send Message	KathleenBell	Report	18 Jan 2005 09:33
	I would think it means that he worked for one particular person and wore that employers 'livery' or in other words 'uniform'. Kath. x
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 668 Send Message	Steve	Report	18 Jan 2005 09:31
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 668 Send Message	What is it???? I know that a Job Coachman drove a coach hired to nobility or gentry for long periods, but what about the Livery Coachman? Thanks for any help recieved Steve