Coachman

A coachman is an employee who drives a coach or carriage, a horse-drawn vehicle designed for the conveyance of passengers.

Even a head chauffeur with under-chauffeurs and mechanics held a much lesser position needing such a small staff and little capital.

An ornamented, often fringed cloth called a hammercloth might have hung over the coachman's seat, especially of a ceremonial coach.

The role of the coachman, who sat on the vehicle, was contrasted with that of the postillion mounted directly on one of the drawing horses.

In the first of his Sherlock Holmes stories, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle refers to the driver of a small cab in London as a jarvey.

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.