This is a list of people who have served as High Steward of Ipswich in Suffolk.1557-1580: Sir William Cordell 1581-1590: Sir Francis Walsingham 1590-1596: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon 1596-1600: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 1600-1608: Thomas Sackville, 1st Baron Buckhurst 1609-1626: Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk 1627-1640: Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk 1653-1688: James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk 1692-1698: Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis 1703-1727: Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart 1800-1805: Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1806-1821: Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart. 1821-1848: Sir Robert Harland, 2nd Baronet 1849-1874: Charles Austin 1875-1882: John Chevallier Cobbold 1882-1884: Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet 1884-1909: Peter Burrell, 4th Baron Gwydyr 1909-1916: Horatio Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum 1916-1932: Sir Edward Packard 1932-1949: Arthur Churchman, 1st Baron Woodbridge 1950-1964: Bertram Gurdon, 2nd Baron Cranworth 1967-1988: Sir Frank Trowbridge Mason 1990-present: Stuart Leonard Whiteley