The Earls of Limerick were the next owners, around the time of the Easthampstead Enclosure Award of 1827. "Kelly's Post Office Directory" shows that Sir James Matheson, who made his fortune trading in China as Jardine, Matheson, was in residence in 1847. In 1853 he sold the estate to Sir William Goodenough Hayter, the Judge Advocate General. In 1868, South Hill Park was referred to in "Cassey's Directory" as "one of the principal mansions in the neighbourhood of Easthampstead". Hayter lived there until his death in 1878, when he drowned in one of the ponds.