The city's first high steward was Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary Queen Elizabeth I.

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However, Mary South, whose grandfather, a first-class steward, died in the disaster, admitted she was "warming" to Titanic 2.

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First and foremost, he is a steward of your money and of his own advice.

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He credits Ferguson, a former union steward in the Glasgow shipyards, as one of the first in the line of modern managers who believe in high physical standards and a scientific approach.

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