Payne, Humfrey Gilbert Garth, son of Edward John Payne, of Lincolns Inn, barrister-at law; by Emma Eleonora Helena, daughter of Henry Pertz, of Holt, Norfolk; b. Feb. 19, 1902; adm. as (non-resident) K.S. Sept. 23, 1915 (H); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1920; B.A. 1924; 1st class Clasical Moderations 1922; 1st class Lit. Hum. 1924; Conington Prize and senior research scholar of Ch. Ch. 1927; director of the British School of Archaeology, Athens from 1929; discovered in the Acropolis the missing parts of the Aphrodite of Lyons and the 'Rampin' head in the Louvre; author of Necro-Corinthia (1931); his biography was published by his widow under the title of The Traveller's Journey is done (1943), and his excavations at Perachora, near Corinth, in two volumes entitled Perachora by T. J. Dunbabin (1940 and 1955); m. Jan. 2, 1926 Elizabeth Dilys, daughter of Thomas Powell, of Bournemouth, authoress and critic; d. at Athens May 9, 1936 and was buried at Mycenae.
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