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...Author. Rt. Hon. the Earl of Birkenhead, P.C., G.C.S.I, D.C.L., LL.D., D.Litt., onetime (1922) High Steward of Oxford University, Rector of Aberdeen University (1926) and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), has often lacked money but never self-possession. As all England knows he was born Frederick Edwin Smith and his first title was "Galloper," which friends and others still apply. Eloquence and legal brilliance carried him to the highest honor of the Law, thence to politics. Both Liberals and Conservatives respected his abilities but mistrusted his policies, as did all England. Chronic indebtedness finally compelled his retirement...
William Saunders, steward on the Lucilla, was drowned. Tom Wright, seaman on Lord Waring's cutter White Heather, had both his legs broken in a squall. Three other yachts were dismasted or overturned. Britannia was kept out of the races one day with a split mainsail...
James Miller, known to two generations of Princetonians as the immemorial, indefatigable, bucktoothed, ruddy-faced chief steward of the Ivy Club, had the pleasure of seeing his portrait-in cocktail shaking pose-hung in the club's private dining room, after an unveiling ceremony at the annual graduates' dinner in Manhattan...
...most fantastic stories of Harvard's most fantastic final clubs. It is the oldest club in the world has songs by Bach, portraits of the founders by Van Dyke, effigies of the founders by Mme. Tussaud, presentation casks of Napoleon brandy, and a styward (Old English for steward) who is the eighth descendant in line of the original Chiffinch, the first styward, who mixed stirrup cups back in the pre-Revolutionary days for the brave lads, then members of the Glim...
Even the oldest peer and the "Father of the House" were consulted. Oldest is William Henry John North, 93, 11th Baron North, High Steward of Banbury, an asthmatic but indomitable old soldier, who still follows his pack of basset-hounds as best he can in his limousine, and must take little comfort that he is a great-grandson of the historic Lord North (Prime Minister 1770-82) whose imperious attitude toward the American Colonies was a major cause of their revolt. The Baronage of North was in abeyance from 1802 to 1841, and the present nth Baron North...