Rev. Coventry Payne

Son of Sir John Payne bart. (q.v.), who left him an annuity of £500 p.a. secured on the family estates on St Kitts other than Sandy Point. Around the time of the marriage of his brother Sir Charles Payne (also q.v.) in 1835 the Rev. Coventry Payne reportedly exchanged a lifetime annuity of £500 secured on the West Indian property for the same amount secured on Tempsford. Rev. Coventry Payne succeeded his brother in the baronetcy (which title was not uncontroversial) in 1841.

1. Adm. pens. at TRINITY HALL, July 1, 1812. [2nd] s. of Sir John (1773), Bart., of Tempsford, Beds. (and Mary, dau. of Sir Philip Monoux, 5th Bart.). [B. 1794. School, Charterhouse (1806-11).] Matric. Michs. 1812; LL.B. 1830. Ord. priest (Gloucester) Mar. 27, 1820. V. of Hatfield Peverel, Essex, 1823-49, and V. of Mundon, 1830-49. Succeeded his brother, Sir Charles, in the Baronetcy, 1841. [G. Mag. records that ‘the Baronetcy is one which had not been admitted and we are unaware from what descent Sir Coventry's claim to it was founded.’] Married, 1820, Henrietta, 3rd dau. of Peter Wright, of Hatfield Priory, Essex, and had issue. Died Nov. 28, 1849, at Hatfield Peverel. Grandfather of Philip M. (1877). (List of Carthusians; Cant. Act Book; G.E.C.; Clergy Lists; G. Mag., 1850, I. 220.)

SEAX - Essex archives online, Records of clients of Witham solicitors, D/DBs T97 http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/ViewCatalogue.aspx?ID=122132 [accessed 21/06/2017].

1. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database online].