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)  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...