Page-Turner Family History

Ambrose Page (circa 1670 - 1743) ,  brother of Sir Gregory Page 1st Bt Ambrose Page as a director of the East India Company (1714) and having received a personal grant of arms Argent, on a bend sable, three martlets or these arms appertain to Ambrose Page of Enfield, Esquire  his descendants (College of Arms Library, 0.1., 0.24), might reasonably have expected to follow other members of his family, in having a Chinese dinner service made with his arms or crest, but no conclusive evidence  exists. However since his nephew Gregory (later 2nd. baronet) was thought to be living in his father's house (Red House) in 1717 when the other Imari Kang Hsi porcelain services were ordered, it is unlikely he would have wished to order a service for himself at this time. So could the lmari Kang Hsi service with the Page crest, have been ordered by Ambrose Page.   The exact date of Ambroses' birth remains a mystery, though it is safe to assume, it must have been about the year 167...

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 ...