Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet of Elton. His son, Sir Thomas Saunders (1665-1741) inherited the manor, although he resided at the other estate he possessed called Newland Park in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks. Both Pitchcott and Newland Park were held by several more generations of the descendants of Sir Thomas Saunders until a cousin, Gov. Thomas Saunders of Brill House (1713-1775) purchased their moiety. This Thomas Saunders had been President of Madras for the British East India Company and had built a substantial fortune during his tenure there. Thomas had married Christian Pitt, the niece of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Thomas and Christian Saunders' son, Thomas inherited the manor. Thomas had been an officer in the army but retired early and moved to Vienna. The running of the estate at Pitchcott was left to a manager, a Mr. Chaplin. Thomas died childless and the manor passed to his cousin, Thomas Saunders who died In 1831. Pitchcott was divided between his two surviving sisters and two nieces. In 1852 their representatives sold Pitchcott to Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, but in 1853 he exchanged it with Christ Church, Oxford for property at Mentmore. Christ Church still held Pitchcott in the 1920s. The eldest male line of the Saunders family emigrated to Guelph in what was then Upper Canada in the mid 19th Century