Editing James Payn (section)

==Family==
Payn's father, William Payn (1774/1775–1840), was clerk to the [[Thames Navigation Commission|Thames Commissioners]], and at one time treasurer to the county of [[Berkshire]]. Payn was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and then entered the [[Military Academy at Woolwich]], but his health was unequal to a military career and he proceeded in 1847 to [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad |id=PN849J |name=Payn, James}}</ref> There he was among the most popular men and served as president of the [[Cambridge Union Society|Union]]. Before going to Cambridge he had published some verses in [[James Henry Leigh Hunt|Leigh Hunt]]'s Journal, and while still an undergraduate put out a volume of ''Stories from Boccaccio'' in 1852 and one of ''Poems'' in 1853.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

In the year Payn left Cambridge, he met and soon married Miss Louisa Adelaide Edlin (born 1830 or 1831),<ref name="ODNB" >ODNB biography, subscription required. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21640 Retrieved 3 December 2010.]</ref> sister of Judge Sir Peter Edlin, later chairman of the London Quarter Sessions.<ref>Victorian memoirs mentioning Edlin: [http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications/roundlondon1-8.htm] Parliamentary question on his salary: [https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/may/14/sir-peter-edlin] Letter to ''The Times'' 1 March 1894: [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fultondata/Biog02.htm]. All retrieved 3 December 2010.</ref> They had nine children, the third of whom, Alicia Isabel (died 1898), married ''The Times'' editor [[George Earle Buckle]].<ref name="ODNB"/>