A coachman was a man whose business it was to drive a coach, a horse-drawn vehicle designed for the conveyance of more than one passenger — and of mail — and covered for protection from the elements. A coach was originally a large usually closed four-wheeled Carriage with two or more horses harnessed as a team, controlled by a Coachman and/or one or He was also called a coachee, coachy or whip.
The term "coachman" is correctly applied to the driver of any type of coach, but it had a specialized meaning before the advent of motor vehicles, as the servant who preceded the chauffeur in domestic service. A motor Vehicle is a Machine which incorporates a motor (sometimes known as an Engine) and which is used for Transportation A domestic worker, domestic, servingman, servingwoman, or servant is one who works and often also lives within the employer's household A chauffeur is an individual who operates any self-propelled vehicle ( Automobile) for a profession. In a great house, this would have been a specialty, but in more modest households, the coachman would have doubled as the stablehand or groom. For the architecture of great houses see Mansion. For the great house masonry pueblos see Chaco Culture National Historical Park. For other uses see Groom A groom is an employee who is responsible for some or all aspects of the welfare of a stable owner's Horses and/or
In early coaches he sat on a built-in compartment called a boot, bracing his feet on a footrest called a footboard. He was often pictured wearing a box coat or box jacket, a heavy overcoat with or without shoulder capes, double-breasted, with fitted waist and wide lapels; its name derives from its use by coachmen riding on the box seat, exposed to all kinds of weather. The term Overcoat is a type of long coat intended to be worn as the outermost garment An ornamented, often fringed cloth called a hammercloth might have hung over the coachman's seat, especially of a ceremonial coach. He could be seen taking refreshments at a type of public house called a watering house.
A coachman was sometimes called a jarvey or jarvie, especially in Ireland (Jarvey was a nickname for Jarvis). Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world One who drove dangerously fast or recklessly might invoke biblical or mytholological allusions: Some referred to him as a jehu, recalling King Jehu of Israel, who was noted for his furious attacks in a chariot (2 Kings 9:20) before he died about 816 BCE. ' Yehu redirects here for the instrument see Yehu (instrument. The history of Ancient Israel and Judah is known to us from classical sources including Judaism 's Tanakh or Hebrew Bible (known The chariot is the earliest and simplest type of Carriage, used in both peace and war as the chief vehicle of many ancient peoples The Books of Kings ( Sefer Melachim, ספר מלכים are a part of Judaism 's Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. Others dubbed him a Phaeton, harking back to the Greek Phaëton, son of Helios who, attempting to drive the chariot of the sun, managed to set the earth on fire. In Greek mythology, Phaëton or Phaethon (ˈfeɪətn or /ˈfeɪəθən/ (Φαέθων "shining" was the son of Helios ( Phoebus In Greek mythology the Sun was personified as Helios (ˈhiliˌɑs ( Ἥλιος Latinized as Helius) When there was no coachman, a postilion or postillion sometimes rode as a guide on the near horse of a pair or of one of the pairs attached to a coach. A postilion (or postillion, occasionally Anglicized to "post-boy" By contrast a Coachman would be mounted on the vehicle along with the passengers
Coachman is also a synonym for the pennant coralfish (Heniochus Monoceros). The pennant coralfish or Coachman, Heniochus acuminatus, is a Tropical fish of the family Chaetodontidae.
Coachman is also a very famous fly used for flyfishing. The pattern exist as both a dry-fly and wet-fly. The pattern is composed before 1860 in England.
External links
- Gentlemen Coachmen, by Anne Woodley.
- George Borrow's, "The Stage-Coachmen Of England: A Bully Served Out". Compiled by Blupete (Peter Landry).
- The stables - Coachmen 1662-1837 | British History Online.
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