William Page (historian)
| William Page | |
|---|---|
| Born |
William Page 4 September 1861 Paddington |
| Died | 3 February 1934 (aged 72) Middleton-on-Sea |
| Residence | Paddington, Lewisham, Queensland, Forest Hill, St Albans, Battersea, Hampstead, Middleton-on-Sea |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Dr Westmacott's School, Westminster School |
| Occupation | Historian, editor |
| Known for | English local history |
| Spouse(s) | Kate Marion Roe |
William Page (4 September 1861 – 3 February 1934) was a prolific and pioneering historian and editor. For the last three decades of his life he was general editor of the Victoria County History.
William Page was born in Paddington, London on 4 September 1861, the fifth of six children of Henry and Georgina Page. He was schooled locally at Dr Westmacott's School and then entered Westminster School, where his education was cut short by the death of his father in 1875.
Georgina then moved the family to Lewisham and Page was articled to a civil engineer. Page had two older brothers, one of whom moved to Australia. Page completed his articles and in about 1881 followed him to take up an engineering post with the Government of Queensland. Page returned to London in 1884.
Page's eldest sister married the record agent and antiquarian William John Hardy, who employed Page from 1885. The business later became the partnership of Page and Hardy, with an office in Lincoln's Inn.
In 1886 Page married Kate Marion Rowe. They settled in Forest Hill and had a daughter (Dorothy) and a son (Ivan).
As a record agent Page frequented the Public Record Office at its then premises in Chancery Lane, where W. J. Hardy's uncle Thomas Duffus Hardy had been deputy keeper since 1861, succeeded by Hardy's father William Hardy. Page developed an interest in historical records, was elected to the Society of Antiquaries in 1887 and published his first article the next year.
Page initially concentrated his historical interest on Northumberland. His first article, published in 1888, was about the Northumbrian palatinates and regalities. He followed this with editions of three early assize rolls of Northumberland (1891), the cartulary of Brinkburn Priory (1893), a table of the pontifical years of the bishops of Durham (1896), and an edition of the Edwardine inventories of church goods for County Durham, Northumberland and Yorkshire (1897).
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