The High Stewardship of the Liberty of St Edmund

The High Stewardship of the Liberty of St Edmund is presided over by Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol, who is the present Hereditary High Steward, and a direct blood descendant of the previous High Stewards for the last 900 years.

The High Stewardship aims to uphold the virtues of St Edmund, King of East Anglia, and first Patron Saint of England. He died a martyr, and was known as a lover of truth and justice, brave, wise, humble, charitable, and virtuous.