Page-Turner Family History

  Sir Edward Turner, 1st Bt. Of Ambrosden 1691-1735                                                    Sir Edward Turner, 1st Bt,1691-1735 Edward Turner, was born in 1691, the second son of John and Elizabeth Turner of Sunbury London. He grew up during a period of considerable expansion of British trade and a time when huge profits were to be made from the British East India Company Burke notes that he was a member of Lincoln’s Inn, one of the four professional societies for barristers, though in his time a gentleman’s education often incorporated a period studying the rudiments of law at one of the Inns without pursuing it as a career. Mary Turner  nee Page c.1697 – 1744 In 1718 he married Mary, the eldest daughter of Sir Gregory Page, 1‘ Bt. Of East Greenwich, and it was probably his father-in-law’s influence as well as that of his brother, John...

Sir Gregory Page, second baronet (1689–1775)  Art Collector and Patron Peter Paul Rubens Pausius and Glyceira ex collection Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt 1689-1775 was extremely wealthy by the time his father died in 1720. He inherited £600,000 and was wealthy in his own right. He was, for example, a large stockholder in the East India Company, having opened his own account on the 30th. March 1709 (the year after his 21st. birthday) and was appointed a director of the company in 1719 and 1720 (the year his father died). His account was not closed until the year before his death in 1774. Sir Gregory also held East India 3.1/2 % Annuities (later 3%) from the 22nd. January 1753 to the 19th. December 1781 (which stood in his name, though owned by his trustees, for some six years after his death. Whereas the main thrust of the first baronet, had been mainly to build up a large fortune through trade and commerce, his son, the second baronet, took a quite different cour...

The South Sea Company and Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt William Hogarth, ‘The South Sea Scheme: speculators ruined by the collapse of the South Sea Company’ (1721) Sir Gregory Page 2 nd Bt, a minor during the Bubble, gained £ 200,000 from his guardians ’ speculation on his behalf. With this, he bought an estate at Wricklemarsh (now Blackheath) where he pulled down the old manor house and commissioned a large manor from architect John James. Though demolished in 1787, surviving visual evidence and fragments reveal it was an eloquent Palladian essay: a central block with pavilions linked by a colonnade and a large portico.  Page was a merchant who epitomized many of the traits and characteristics to be found among the nouveau riche merchants of his era. He was in fact Gregory Page 2 nd Bt and followed a grandfather and father of the same name both of whom had been highly successful merchants in their day;  Gregory Page 1 st Bt progressed to a career in politics. The first Gregory ...