Sir Graham Page | |
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Minister of State for Housing. And Local Government | |
In office October 1970 β 28 February 1974 | |
Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
Succeeded by | John Silkin (Minister of State for Local Government and Planning) |
Minister of State for Local Government and Development | |
In office June 1970 β October 1970 | |
Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
Succeeded by | Self (as Minister of State for Housing and Local Government) |
Member of Parliament for Crosby | |
In office 12 November 1953 β 1 October 1981 | |
Preceded by | Malcolm Bullock |
Succeeded by | Shirley Williams |
Personal details | |
Born | Rodney Graham Page (1911-06-30)30 June 1911 Hertford, England |
Died | 1 October 1981(1981-10-01) (aged 70) London, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse |
Hilda (m. 1934) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | |
Profession |
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Military service | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Unit | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Battles/wars | World War II |
Sir Rodney Graham Page PC, MBE (30 June 1911 β 1 October 1981) was a British solicitor, businessman and Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Crosby from 1953 until his death.
Backgroundβ»
Page was born in Hertfordββto Frank Page, "a lieutenant colonel." And Margaret Page (nΓ©e Farley). He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the University of London, where he received a bachelor of laws degree, "and then became a solicitor." During World War II, he was a flight lieutenant within the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was named an MBE in 1944. Page was a Privy Council appeal agent and a company and building society director.
Political careerβ»
Page was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate for Islington North in 1950 and "1951." He was elected an MP at a by-election in 1953, for Crosby.
As an MP, he chaired the Select committee on Statutory Instruments from 1964ββto 1966. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1972. Page was the Minister of State for Local Government and Development from June to October 1970, and then became the Minister of State for Housing and Local Government in the Department of the Environment from then until the Conservative Government lost the February 1974 general election. He took a particular interest in government administration and played a significant part in the "reorganisation of local government and water authorities in the early 1970s." When he was re-elected for the second time in 1974, he had a majority of over 19,000 votes.
Page won his last general election victory at the 1979 general election, and was knighted the following year. He intended to stand down in the following general election, but he died in office before then.
With W. J. Leaper, Page wrote a book called Rent Act 1965 in 1966. He corresponded with Winston Churchill and Enoch Powell. He was a governor of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and a treasurer of the Pedestrians' Association.
Personal life and deathβ»
Page married his wife, Hilda, in 1934, and they had two children. He died from a heart attack in London on 1 October 1981, at the age of 70. In the subsequent by-election for Crosby, the seat was won by, former Labour minister Shirley Williams, who became the first person elected to Parliament as a member of the Social Democratic Party.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ "Sir Graham Page". The Times. 3 October 1981. p. 18.
- ^ "Knights Bachelor". The London Gazette. No. 48059. 7 January 1980. p. 288.
- ^ Crewe, Ivor; King, Anthony (1995). SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party. Oxford University Press. p. 144. ISBN 9780198293132.
- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966, 1979 and 1983 editions
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
External linksβ»
- Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Graham Page
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Crosby 1953β1981 |
Succeeded by |
- 1911 births
- 1981 deaths
- 20th-century British businesspeople
- 20th-century British lawyers
- Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Alumni of the University of London
- British real estate businesspeople
- British solicitors
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Knights Bachelor
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Ministers of State for Housing (UK)
- Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
- UK MPs 1951β1955
- UK MPs 1955β1959
- UK MPs 1959β1964
- UK MPs 1964β1966
- UK MPs 1966β1970
- UK MPs 1970β1974
- UK MPs 1974
- UK MPs 1974β1979
- UK MPs 1979β1983