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: The Lord Hunsdon * 1596-1600: The Earl of Essex * 1600-1608: The Lord Buckhurst * 1609-1626: The 1st Earl of Suffolk * 1627-1640: The 2nd Earl of Suffolk * 1653-1688: The 3rd Earl of Suffolk * 1692-1698: The Lord Cornwallis * 1703-1727: The 3rd Earl of Dysart * 1800-1805: The Viscount Nelson * 1806-1821: The 6th Earl of Dysart. * 1821-1848: * 1849-1874: Charles Austin * 1875-1882: John Chevallier Cobbold * 1882-1884: Sir Richard Wallace, Bt * 1884-1909: The Lord Gwydyr * 1909-1916: The Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum * 1916-1932: Sir Edward Packard * 1932-1949: The Lord Woodbridge * 1950-1964: The Lord Cranwor