![]() ![]() He then took up a position as one of the Balmoral gillies and was still working there when Queen Victoria appeared on the estate with her family. In the 1840s, he found work on the Balmoral estate though it is unclear preciously how. At the age of 14, he finished his education and joined the workforce. He attended a few terms at Crathie school, but he mostly learned outside of school and picked up the skills of deerstalking, fish spearing, shooting and riding. He would spend his childhood at The Bush Farm, where the family moved when John was five years old. The family would grow to include 11 children – 9 boys and two girls – though some would die in childhood. On 8 December 1826, John Brown, who would become Queen Victoria’s close confidant after Prince Albert’s death, was born at Crathienaird as the second son of John Brown, a tenant farmer, and Margaret Leys. ![]()
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