Ownership
The owners of the modern estate, in chronological order, have been:
- 1640 Sir Thomas Chicheley (c.1613–1699)
- 1686 Sir John Cutler Baronet (1607-1693)
- 1689 Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1660–1723) by marriage settlement as husband of Elizabeth (died 1697) daughter of Sir John Cutler
- 1697 Edmund Boulter (1635-1709) nephew of Sir John Cutler on the death of Elizabeth (Cutler) Robartes without heir
- 1710 John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 4th Earl of Clare (d.1711)
- 1711 Henrietta Holles
- 1713 Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1689–1741)
- 1740 Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764)
- 1764 Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720–1790)
- 1790 Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (1757–1834)
- 1834 Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke (1799–1873)
- 1873 Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke ('Champagne Charlie')
- 1894 Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden
- 1919 Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden
- 1938 Captain and Mrs George Bambridge
- 1976 The National Trust
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