Hall Boy

The Hall Boy is a position held by a young male servants on the staff of a noble house, usually a young teenager. The name derives from the fact that the hall boy usually slept in the servants' hall. 
Like his female counterpart, the scullery maid, the hall boy are expected to work up to 16 hours per day, seven days per week. His duties are often among the most disagreeable in the house, such as emptying chamber pots for the higher-ranking servants. In the absence of a boot boy, he also cleaned the boots not just of the family members but also those of the butler and those of the visitors. The hall boy also waits on more senior servants when they take their meals in the servants hall. He sleeps on a fold-down bed in the hallway connecting the servants' quarters.
The hall boy was the lowest-ranked male servant, but he could rise to a higher position in the household, eventually becoming a valet or butler.