High Steward of Ipswich

Last updated October 26, 2025

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 ^[1]
1703-1727: Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart ^[2]
1800-1805: Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
1806-1821: Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart.^[3]
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

References

↑ Cracroft-Brennan, Patrick. "Cornwallis, Baron (E, 1661 - 1852)". Cracroft's Peerage. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
↑ Wedgwood, Josiah Clement (2002). The House of Commons 1690-1715. Cambridge University Press. pp. 648–649. ISBN 0-521-77221-4 . Retrieved 12 January 2008.
↑ Harwood, H. W. Forsyth; Murray, Keith W. (1906). Paul, James Balfour (ed.). Murray, Earl of Dysart. Vol. III. Edinburgh: David Douglas. pp. 411–412.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

"About Ipswich's High Steward". Ipswich Borough Council. 11 May 2009. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2012.

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[1] Cracroft-Brennan, Patrick. "Cornwallis, Baron (E, 1661 - 1852)". Cracroft's Peerage. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2012.

[2] Wedgwood, Josiah Clement (2002). The House of Commons 1690-1715. Cambridge University Press. pp. 648–649. ISBN 0-521-77221-4 . Retrieved 12 January 2008.

[3] Harwood, H. W. Forsyth; Murray, Keith W. (1906). Paul, James Balfour (ed.). Murray, Earl of Dysart. Vol. III. Edinburgh: David Douglas. pp. 411–412.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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