Sentence examples for served as steward from inspiring English sources

Denis Forman, a television executive who served as steward to some of the most ambitious and popular British programs ever made, including "The Jewel in the Crown," "Brideshead Revisited" and the celebrated "7 Up" documentary series, which has revisited the lives of a group of Britons at seven-year intervals, died on Sunday in London.

The father, William Montagu, distinguished himself in the Scottish Wars during the reign of Edward I, and served as steward of Edward II's household.

Coke's uncle Thomas Gawdy had served as Steward to the Third Duke of Norfolk, and during the 1580s Coke was employed by the Howards to counter lawyers employed by the Crown, who argued that the Howards' lands were forfeit owing to the treason of the 4th Duke.

Thankfully, today we are celebrating the centennial of the signing of the Organic Act in 1916 that created National Park Service (NPS), the agency that has so ably served as steward of America's most treasured landscapes, seascapes, historical sites, and other special places.

Over the years, various Patuxent scientists have served as stewards of the collection.

In early medieval Germany, counts palatine served as stewards of royal territories in the absence of the Holy Roman emperors.

Even before the war, the city attracted large numbers of Filipinos, many of whom had served as stewards on Navy ships.

As well as choosing the king and king elect, the ruling Kaweq dynasty also had a lineage that produced the powerful priests of Q'uq'umatz, who may have served as stewards of the city.

As Joan Box tells us 'The link was strengthened that summer when the First International Eugenics Congress took place in London under Major Darwin's presidency, when Fisher, with other Cambridge members, served as stewards at the meetings'.

These days, Mr. Schubert serves as steward to the light, does some painting, grass mowing and tour guiding.

"My task had been to serve as steward, not proprietor, of an extraordinary public trust," he wrote in "Chances of a Lifetime: A Memoir," published in 2001.