Family and Education
bap. 17 Mar. 1762, IGI (Beds.), confirming CB, v. 82. DNB and Oxford DNB incorrectly give his year of birth as 1763. 4th but 2nd surv. illegit. s. of Sir Gillies Payne, 2nd bt., of Roxton and Maria, da. of John Keeling, farmer, of Potton, Beds. educ. Hackney; Queens’, Camb. 1779; I. Temple 1779. m. 21 Aug. 1789, IGI (Staffs.). Elizabeth Sarah, da. of Samuel Steward of Stourton Castle, Staffs., 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da. suc. fa. to property at Tempsford, Beds. and Sandy Point, St. Kitts 1801. d. 23 Jan. 1843.
Offices Held
Main residence: Knuston Hall, nr. Higham Ferrers, Northants.
Notes
See A. O’Shaughnessy, A Planter Family and the Decline of the West Indian Sugar Industry: The Payne Estates of St. Kitts (Beds. RO Cfls. 180) and ‘A Gentleman Radical: the Life of Sir Peter Payne’, Beds. Mag. xv (1975-7), 338-44; Oxford DNB.
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Commons 1820-1832
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PAYNE, Peter (1762-1843)
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