Graham Page

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir (Rodney) Graham Page (30 June 1911 - 1 October 1981) was a British Conservative Party politician.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 Department of Environment 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.