Career
Page went for a year to the University of Vienna as Derby scholar, where he worked under Ludwig Radermacher, then returned to Christ Church as a lecturer, the next year becoming Student and Tutor. In 1937 he became Junior Censor. Page was elected the 34th Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University in 1950, a position he held until 1974, and held a professorial fellowship at Trinity College. He was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1959–73. He was knighted in 1971.
Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1952, he received its Kenyon Medal in 1969, and served as the Academy's president from 1971–74.
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