Steward, Lord High, in early times the highest office of state in England, ranking in power next to the sovereign; hereditary during many centuries, the office lapsed in the reign of Henry IV., and since has been revived only on special occasions, e. g. a coronation, a trial of a peer, at the termination of which the office is demitted, the Lord High Steward himself breaking in two his wand of office.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour * Stewart, Balfour