The original suite had remained intact at Moor Park for 156 years, although the house had been sold twice during that period. But in 1920 Lord Ebury held on to the suite when he sold the house to the first Lord Leverhulme. Three years after that Ebury split the suite up, selling Leverhulme two sofas and two chairs and retaining four chairs and two stools for himself. Then, on May 5, 1942, Lord Ebury put these up for auction at Christie's. They sold for a total of £97.39s.18d, which was hardly an improvement on their original price in 1764 (but in 1764 there wasn't a world war going on). Shortly afterward, Dolly Mann sold two identical-looking chairs to my grandmother. It is not recorded how or from whom Mann acquired them but, according to Robin, she told my grandmother that she wished she had bought more of them.

The subsequent history of the suite is confused. Leverhulme's four pieces must subsequently have been disposed of as well, for--with the exception of my two chairs, if they are genuine, and one stool and one chair, which have vanished--the suite eventually ended up at Kenwood House in Hampstead, which the architect Robert Adam remodeled in the same year, 1764, in which Dundas took delivery of his Adam-designed Moor Park suite. Kenwood House, now administered by English Heritage, was eager to acquire Adam furniture because of its connection with him as an architect.

One of the first Moor Park pieces it picked up was a sofa that had been for a while in the White House in Washington, lent to President and Mrs. Kennedy by the New York dealer Frank Lenygon. But Jackie Kennedy reputedly didn't like it and returned it to Lenygon, whose widow sold it to Kenwood in 1972. Kenwood later acquired other pieces at sales in England and Ireland. But among Kenwood's purchases were two "Moor Park" chairs that were definitely not original.