George Payne (Freemason)

George Payne (bap.12 May 1687; 23 January 1757) was an English official of the Exchequer and Freemason.

He was the son of Samuel Payne of Chester and Frances Kendrick or Kenrick.

Payne and his wife Anne Martha Batson lived in St Stephen's Court, New Palace Yard, Westminster.

Payne's brother Thomas Payne (23 December 1689 – 1744) was rector of Holme Lacy Herefordshire for Frances Scudamore wife of Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort and later the wife of Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore.

Thomas's nine recorded children included Frances Compton (later Amyand) Countess of Northampton and Catherine Seymour, wife of Lord Francis Seymour, Dean of Wells.