Page-Turner Family History

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...

 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...