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| 1876 |
| | | York House is bought by Sir Mounstuart Grant Duff MP, later Governor of Madras. | |
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| 1877 |
| | | John Astley buys Orleans House and converts it to a sports and social club which is unsuccessful. | |
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| 1882 |
| | | Orleans House is bought by the Cunard family who are the last private owners. | |
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| 1883 |
| | | Following Lady Waldegrave's death in 1879, the Strawberry Hill estate is sold first to an American hotel company and then on, in 1883 to Baron de Stern. | |
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| 1889 |
| | | Elizabeth Twining dies and leaves Dial House to the parish for use as a vicarage. | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Dial House is extensively restored and altered and the present sundial is installed. | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The vicar, the Reverend Richard Tahourdin, moves into Dial House. | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Colonel Gostling-Murray dies and Whitton Park is put up for sale. | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The Duc D'Orleans, who had been born at York House in 1869, buys the house and makes major alterations. These include a new east wing housing a museum and swimming pool, and walling the riverside grounds. | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The Cunard family, then living close by at Orleans House, buy the Marble Hill estate for £36,000 with the intention of creating a housing estate. | |
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