Biography
Page was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of London and became a solicitor. He was a Privy Council appeal agent and a company and building society director.
Page contested Islington North in 1950 and 1951 was first elected Member of Parliament at a by-election in 1953, for Crosby. He chaired the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments 1964-66. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1972 and was a Minister of State at the Secretary of State for the Department of Local Government and Development until 1974 when the Conservative Government lost the February 1974 general election. He took a particular interest in Government administration playing 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. He died in office in 1981 and was replaced in parliament by the first Social Democratic Party member to be elected, the former Labour Education Minister Shirley Williams.
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 in London and chairman of the Pedestrians' Association.
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