<PERSON> was born in the West Coast of Dunoon in 1964. , As a young man he got work in Devon through family friends as a Sheep shearer which he enjoyed as he got to see a lot of the country side down south, but was always drawn back to Scotland. At the age of 27 <PERSON> headed to Australia and New Zealand for a year to be involved with Sheep work and on returning back to home he got working as a <PERSON> in different locations. In 2014 he got a job at Invercauld House as a <PERSON>. <PERSON> says that apart from his wife and family his main love these days are breeding and training his very own sheep dogs.