Page-Turner Family History

Wricklemarsh seat of Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt   (c.1695 – 1775) Sir Gregory Page. the second baronet, was 30 when he succeeded his father and in the following year, he married Martha, daughter of Robert Kenward of Yalding, Kent. This Sir Gregory appears not to have concerned himself greatly with the family business. Indeed he had probably little need to do so for with his father’s accumulated fortune, substantially ’ augmented by the successful South Sea speculation, he was described as “ the richest commoner in England ”. He greatly extended his father‘s small Greenwich property by investment in real estate with the following purchases which made him one of the most important land-owners in south-east England. Thus, when Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt,  came into his rights as head of the family only two or three members lived at Greenwich. With neither a family to worry about nor a living to be earned, Gregory Page set about devoting the middle years of his life to the pur...

 Sir Gregory Page, second baronet (1689–1775) his Life Gregory Page, second baronet  ( 1689–1775 ) Sir Gregory Page was born in Greenwich, he was the elder son of  Sir Gregory Page, first baronet (1668–1720) , and his wife,  Mary , daughter of  Thomas Trotman , a citizen of London. Both his father and his grandfather had been directors of the  East India Company . The first baronet was MP for New Shoreham in 1708–13 and 1715–20: on his death in 1720 his executors sold his large shareholding in the  South Sea Company , and his son was left about  £600,000 . It seems likely that the Pages were obliged at the outset to accept South Sea Stock in settlement of Navy bills (in their case for victualling), this being the main purpose for which the Government founded the Company. Sir Gregory’s friend and business associate, Sir Ambrose Crawley of Greenwich, had a similar experience in supplying iron wares to the Navy and he was for a time d...