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
William Payne (mathematician) William Payne (mathematician) William Payne (unknown – c. 1779) was an English mathematician and the author of books about mathematics, draughts, and whist. Payne was the brother of prominent London bookseller Thomas Payne, who sold his works and published some of them. Payne's first book, "An Introduction to the Game of Draughts", was published in 1756. The dedication and preface were written by Samuel Johnson. Payne's second book, "An Introduction to Geometry: Containing the Most Useful Propositions in Euclid, & Other Authors", was published in 1767. The book "Maxims for Playing the Game of Whist; With All Necessary Calculations, and