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11 Facts About Graham Page

1.

Graham Page was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the University of London, where he received a bachelor of laws degree, and then became a solicitor.

2.

Graham Page was a Privy Council appeal agent and a company and building society director.

3.

Graham Page was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate for Islington North in 1950 and 1951.

4.

Graham Page was elected an MP at a by-election in 1953, for Crosby.

5.

Graham 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.

6.

Graham Page 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.

7.

Graham Page won his last general election victory at the 1979 general election, and was knighted the following year.

8.

Graham Page intended to stand down in the following general election, but he died in office before then.

9.

Graham Page was a governor of St Thomas's Hospital, London, and a treasurer of the Pedestrians' Association.

10.

Graham Page married his wife, Hilda, in 1934, and they had two children.

11.

Graham Page died from a heart attack in London on 1 October 1981, at the age of 70.