Joseph Payne (2 March 1808 in Bury St Edmunds – 30 April 1876 in Bayswater) was an English educationalist and the first Professor of Education at the College of Preceptors in London.
Initially the pupils studied spelling and writing, history and geography, French, word and object lessons, arithmetic.
[1] He retired from teaching in 1868 and began to write various textbooks and criticized elementary education in the England.
[1] His wife died in October 1875 and he retired from the College of Preceptors in December 1875 due to ill health.
[1] The Archives of the Institute of Education, University of London holds the papers of Joseph Payne and his family and the records of the College of Preceptors [1].