Payn, James, English novelist, born at Cheltenham; edited Chambers's Journal and Cornhill Magazine; his novels were numerous and of average quality, “Lost Sir Massingberd” and “By Proxy” among the most successful (1830‒1899).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Paxton, Sir Joseph * Payne, John