Page-Turner Family History

  Westcombe Park, Greenwich, Kent Entrance Front from an engraving 1779 A View of the rear Elevation 1777 The earliest Westcombe Manor House is thought to have stood near the junction of Foyle Road and Westcombe Park Road. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be known of its size or appearance. In the 16th century, it was the home of William Lambarde, a lawyer who was the first historian of Kent, but although he mentions Westcombe he does not give any description of it. The Lambardes held it until 1649, when their estate, having been sequestered by Parliament, they were obliged to sell off this part of it to pay the fine on the rest. It was sold to Hugh Forth, a London mercer, who in 1652 sold it to Sir Theophilus Biddulph, 1st baronet.   Rear Elevation with teh original block on the left and the link & addition on the right. The Drawing is by John Charnock died 1807 Westcombe House, Greenwich, circa 1752 by George Lambert In 1724, the 3rd Biddulph baronet sold the Westco...

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...