See also:LORD STEWARD
, in See also:England, an important See also:official of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:household
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He is always a member of the See also:government, a peer and a privy councillor
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Up to 1782, the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was one of considerable See also:political importance and carried See also:cabinet See also:rank
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The See also:lord steward receives his See also:appointment from the See also:sovereign in See also:person, and bears a See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:staff as the See also:emblem and See also:warrant of his authority
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He is the first dignitary of the See also:court
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In the Statutes of Eltham he is called " the lord See also:great See also:master," but in the Household See also:Book of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth " the lord steward," as before and since
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In an See also:act of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII
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(1539) " for placing of the lords," he is described as " the See also:grand master or lord steward of the king's most See also:honourable household." He presides at the See also:Board of See also:Green See also:Cloth.' In his See also:department are the treasurer and See also:comptroller of the household, who rank next to him
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These officials are usually peers or the sons of peers and privy councillors
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They sit at the Board of Green Cloth, carry white staves, and belong to the See also:ministry
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But the duties which in theory belong to the lord steward, treasurer and comptroller of the household are in practice performed by the master of the household, who is a permanent officer and resides in the See also:palace
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He is a white-staff officer and a member of the Board of Green Cloth but not of the ministry, and among other things he pre-sides at the daily dinners of the See also:suite in waiting on the sovereign
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In his See also:case See also:history repeats itself
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He is not named in the See also:Black Book of See also:Edward IV. or in the Statutes of Henry VIII., and is entered as " master of the household and clerk of the green cloth " in the Household Book of Queen Elizabeth
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But he has superseded the lord steward of the household, as the lord steward of the household at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time superseded the lord high steward of England
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In the lord steward's department are the officials of the Board of Green Cloth, the See also:coroner (" coroner of the See also:verge " ), and pay-master of the household, and the See also:officers of the See also:almonry (see See also:ALMONER)
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Other offices in the department were those of the cofferer of the household, the treasurer of the chamber, and the paymaster of See also:pensions, but these, with six clerks of the Board of Green Cloth, were abolished in 1782
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The lord steward had formerly three courts besides the Board of Green Cloth under him
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First, the lord steward's court, superseded (1541) bysecond—the See also:Marshalsea court, a court of See also:record having See also:jurisdiction, both See also:civil and criminal within the verge (the See also:area within a See also:radius of 12 M. from where the sovereign is See also:resident), and originally held for the purpose of administering See also:justice between the domestic servants of the sovereign, " that they might not be See also:drawn into other courts and their service lost." Its criminal
' A See also:committee of the king's household, consisting of the lord steward and his subordinates, charged with the See also:duty of examining and passing all the accounts of the household
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The board had also See also:power to punish all offenders within the verge or jurisdiction of the palace, which extended in every direction for 200 yds. from the See also:gates of the court yard
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The name is derived from the green-covered table at which the transactions of the board were originally conducted
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operas and even tragedies, which are enumerated by Dr See also:Hermann Seeliger in his Loreleysage in Dichlung and Musik (See also:Leipzig-Reudnitz, 1898)
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The favourite poem with composers was See also:Heine's, set to See also:music by some twenty-five musicians, the settings by See also:Friedrich Silcher (from an old folk-See also:song) and by See also:Liszt being the most famous
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