Great house
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A great house is a large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. The term is used mainly historically, especially of properties at the turn of the
Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire is the largest great house in the United Kingdom.
Longleat House in Wiltshire, the seat of the Marquesses of Bath
Rose Hall, a great house in Jamaica
Butler
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A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments, with the butler in charge of the
Great house
…the household and the preference of the employers, but in general the staff is divided into departments run by the following staff: Title Description Butler The head of household staff in most homes; in charge of the pantry, wine cellar and dining room. In a small house the butler also valets for the master…
A butler in the White House Butler's Pantry.
Butler c. 1922
A pincerna depicted in service to a noble court during the Medieval Era.
In a large house, the butler (centre-left) is traditionally head over a full array of household servants. This is the servant staff at the Stonehouse Hill of Massachusetts, US the estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames, 1914.