Nous with gamekeeper Simon Munro
Circa 1872

In 1865 he purchased "Nous" from a cobbler near the town of Brighton in southern England. The only yellow puppy in a litter of black Wavy-Coated retrievers was whelped in 1864.  This young dog had been given to the cobbler, as payment of a debt, by the gamekeeper of a local landowner, Lord Chichester.  Marjoribanks took this young dog with him to Guisachan, his estate in Scotland, to join his kennel of sporting dogs.