John Baker Holroyd, later 1st Earl of Sheffield, who inherited through his Uncle Samuel the Baker estates in 1768, and who in 1769 bought Sheffield Place, and transferred the paintings to this house, together with other property, where they remained until 1909 when the Earldom became extinct, on the death of the 3rd Earl. The contents were sold and some of the family portraits were bought by the father of the present vendor, whose mother was descended from Lewis Way of Richmond on her father, Canon John Way of Henbury's, side.

Martha was the daughter of Samuel Mellish of Blyth, Nottinghamshire, who was Sheriff of the County in 1721 and a Justice of the Peace. She married Daniel Baker II of Penn, Buckinghamshire, who was Sheriff of the County in 1721 and a Justice of the Peace. There is a monument ot the Baker family in Holy Trinity Church, Penn.

Sheffield Place, now Sheffield Park Gardens, are owned by the national Trust. Sources of information on the Bakers of Penn family are A.M.W. Stirling's The Works of Yesterday, Gilbert Wilson's The History of the Families of Penn, 1925.