Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet

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.

Page Senior was a wealthy London merchant, shipwright and director of the British East India Company, who owned a brewery in Wapping.

[2] Page followed his father's footsteps as a brewer and merchant, building a vast fortune in trade with South and East Asia.

At a by-election in December 1708, he was elected Whig Member of Parliament for New Shoreham, West Sussex where the prime industry was shipbuilding.

[2] Page was returned as Whig MP for New Shoreham, at the 1715 general election, and supported the Hanoverian government from then on.

[2] The first baronet's other daughter Sophia was the first wife of Lewis Way (a member of the Inner Temple, director of the South Sea Company and president of Guy's Hospital).

Monument of Dame Mary Page in Bunhill Fields burial ground
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