Sir Gregory Page-Turner, 3rd Baronet (16 February 1748 – 4 January 1805) was a wealthy landowner and politician in late 18th century

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, serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for

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for 21 years. Gregory Turner ("Page" was added later) was the eldest son of

Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet (28 April 1719 – 31 October 1766) was an English Whig politician who sat in the Parliament of Great Britain from 1741 to 1766. Life Turner was the son of Sir Edward Turner, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary.Lobel ...

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near

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. Gregory succeeded him to become the third Turner baronet on 31 October 1766.

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painted Sir Gregory's portrait in about 1768. In 1771, Sir Gregory sold the manor of

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, Oxfordshire, which his father had bought in 1764, to his father's steward John Pardoe. In 1775 he inherited substantial estates in northwest

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(today part of southeast

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) from his great-uncle Sir Gregory Page, and added "Page" to his surname. These included a mansion and of estates at Wricklemarsh (today part of Blackheath), which were sold in 1783 for £22,000 to

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. That year he served as

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and then as MP for

from April 1784 until his death in 1805. Page-Turner was a noted book collector. His father Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet had a

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, Ambrosden House, built by the architect

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in the 1740s.Lobel, 1957, pages 15-30 Sir Gregory never lived at Ambrosden, thought the house too big and in 1767 sought to demolish part of it to make it smaller. This proved impractical so in 1768 he had the entire house demolished. He died at the age of 56 and was buried in Bicester. He had married Frances, the daughter of Joseph Howell. Their son Gregory Osborne Page-Turner (1785–1843) succeeded him to become the fourth baronet. Their daughter, Anna Leigh Guy Page-Turner, married

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