| Description | DOB: 1815
DOD: unknown
Attended British School at Chesham but left at the age of 10 to help his father by looking after the pheasants.
No mention of marriage or children.
Tended pheasants at an early age.
Took charge of wood at the age of 14.
He worked various posts as an under-keeper and a keeper in the 1830s.
He became a keeper in 1843 where he remained for the rest of his working life.
No mention of interests.
The autobiography talks about the author’s experience of hunting poachers.
The autobiography also focuses on his life as a keeper.
The autobiography also mentions how to preserve foxes, breed cubs, feeding them and keeping them at home.
The autobiography is typed-written.
Work, Keeper, Pheasants, Poacher, Cubs, Vixens |