[10] The functional role as deputy consists of acting in the place of the Lord High Steward,[11] if required, to bear the Curtana,[12] a Sword of State, and/or a White Wand at State ceremonials, including Royal Coronations, a responsibility confirmed by grant of Queen Victoria on 15 September 1871, and formerly to act as President of the Court by which a Peer may have been tried by his Peers in the Peerage of Ireland.
[13] According to the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Lord High Steward of Ireland, he has appointed five Deputies in an honorary capacity[citation needed].
[14][15] The Earl emphasises that this is a purely honorific appointment, recognised neither by the College of Arms in London nor by the authorities in the Republic of Ireland[citation needed].
It is similar to the titular titles without land sold in the UK, conferring no rights whatsoever[citation needed].
One other of the five appointments, as a deputy to the Lord High Steward of Ireland, an office that became obsolete at the Coronation of King Charles III[citation needed], is claimed by Joerg Barisch, Esquire.