[1] He was born at Hepworth, Suffolk and died at Abu Simbel, Egypt.
[2] He played cricket for the Winchester side as a middle-order batsman, and was picked for the Cambridge non-first-class trial matches in both 1847 and 1848.
In the 1848 trial, he top-scored for the "Cambridge Second XI" in both innings, and this led to him being picked for a first-team match (the second team beat the first eleven convincingly, but some of this was to do with having John Wisden, not a Cambridge student, in their team, as he took 10 wickets).
[4] Payne graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1850.
[2] He was ordained as a Church of England priest and was curate of Stanton, Suffolk from 1855 to his death.