If successful, the trust plans to repair and convert the gamekeeper's cottage to create accommodation for five trainees who will help maintain the park, repair the lakes and restore the landscape around them.

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As we leave, the parlor maid is laying out the silver in preparation for an Earl who is coming to tea while outside the gamekeeper ensures the drives aren't flooded before the shooting party arrives at the weekend.

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Even in a country inured to sleazy politics, the revelation that the fiscal gamekeeper had been a poacher all along has taken outrage to new heights.

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One story found in the records is of Donald Stewart, head gamekeeper to Queen Victoria at the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire.

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The LACS has listed numerous cases of hunt monitors being attacked, such as Christopher Marles, who was convicted of deliberately using his horse to knock a hunt monitor to the ground, and gamekeeper Richard Clarke, who was found guilty of assault and threatening behaviour.

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But Irvine-born Robb, who works as a water bailiff and sometimes gamekeeper, is keen to pick up the pieces of his career after being assured by a doctor specialising in the condition and his family GP that he is fit to resume boxing.

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