Page-Turner Family History

      Thomas Page  d. 1763  and his wife Juliana Page, nee Howe 1701-1780 Thomas Page was the younger brother of Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt. (1689-1775)  He was the son of Sir Gregory Page 1st Bt and his wife Mary Page, nee Trotman, he was the third child born after Ambrose Page who died in infancy 1698. Thomas was almost certainly born in Wapping between 1699 and 1700, but certainly before his younger sister Mary Page who was born in 1702. Thomas like his eldest brother Gregory was an Alderman of the City of London and director of the East India Company.   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 .  He was very wealthy in his own right having an additional fortune of £700,000.  His brother st...

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 ...

 Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet (c. 1669 –  1720), of Greenwich, Kent Sir Gregory Page 1st Bt. 1669-1720 by Herman Van Der Mijn 1684-1741       Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet  (c. 1669 – 25 May 1720), of  Greenwich , Kent, was an English brewer, merchant and Whig politician who sat in the  House of Commons  between 1708 and 1720. Early life Page was the eldest son of Gregory Page (died 1693) and his second wife Elizabeth Burton. Page Senior was a wealthy London merchant, shipwright, and director of the British  East India Company , who owned a brewery in  Wapping . He was also an  Alderman  of the  City of London  in 1687. Elizabeth Burton was a widow from Stepney. Page Junior married Mary Trotman, the 17-year-old daughter of Thomas and Mary Trotman of London, on 21 January 1690. Career Page followed in his father's footsteps as a brewer and merchant, building a vast fortune in trade with South and East Asia. ...