Cynthia Payne Leland. Payne made appearances as an after-dinner speaker and launched a range of "adult" services and products in 2006. Payne died on 15 November 2015, aged 82. Her family celebrated her life a month later with a colourful humanist funeral, in accordance with her wishes. Cynthia Payne Cynthia Payne (24 December 193215 November 2015) was an English brothel keeper and party hostess who made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s, when she was acquitted of running a brothel at 32 Ambleside Avenue, in Streatham, a southwestern suburb of London. Payne first came to national attention in 1978 when police raided
Jessie Payne Jessie Payne Jessie Payne (nee Avery) (1864-1933) was part of deputation of working class female members of the East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS) that visited Prime Minister H.H. Asquith in June 1914 seeking votes for all women. Born in Bethnal Green, Jessie and her sister were brought up by their maternal grandparents, both shoe makers, since their mother, who had spent some time in the workhouse, had remarried after the death of her husband. Jessie learnt to sew boots at the age of ten, having been assisting her grandparents from a young age. She was a member of the