The Last Coachman

George Simcock was born in 1860.    He was well known in Lewes and Eastbourne as a coach proprietor and a ‘good whip’ (driver).   At the age of sixteen, George was apprenticed to a butcher in Hailsham. Four years later he was ordered to pay Eliza Piper for the maintenance of their illegitimate son.  In 1824, he married…