Payne, John - Social Networks and Archival Context (original) (raw)

Epithet: of Sloane MS 4056

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Epithet: of Add MS 34456

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Epithet: publisher; Accountant-general, Bank of England 1780

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Epithet: engraver

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Epithet: Constable of Welford

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Epithet: fisherman at Cromer

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Epithet: Lieutenant; of the Kilkenny Militia

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Epithet: poet

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Epithet: bookseller and publisher, of London

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Epithet: of the Inner Temple

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John Payne was much admired in the late 19th and early 20th centuries both for his original verse and for his translations of Arabic and Persian narratives. Payne was born in 1842 and lived for most of his life in London, where he worked as a solicitor. From 1866 onwards, he moved in artistic and literary circles, meeting some of the Pre-Raphaelites, Arthur O'Shaugnessy, Swinburne, Catulle Mendes, Anatole France, Richard Burton and others. Payne's remarkable aptitude for languages enabled him to translate French, Italian Turkish, Arabic and Persian prose and verse. He never married and in later life became a recluse, dying on 15 February 1916.

Reference: Wright, Thomas, The Life of John Payne (1919). Evans, B.I. English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century (1933).

From the guide to the John Payne Collection, 1869-1914, (University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department)