"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 her home and found a sex party was in progress. Men paid with luncheon vouchers to dress up in lingerie and be spanked by young women. Police found 53 men at her residence, in varying levels of undress, which included ""a peer of the realm,"
"Thomas Payne Thomas Payne (c.1718–1799) was an important bookseller and publisher in 18th-century London. Payne was born in Brackley, Northamptonshire. From 1750 he ran a shop at Mews Gate in Castle Street near Leicester Fields (the site is now occupied by the National Gallery). The premises were notoriously small, but popular with the literati of that period. Referred to as the ""Literary Coffee House"", the shop became a sort of club during the day for discussions on all subjects. Patrons included George Steevens, Thomas Crofts, John Hoole and Thomas Tyrwhitt. Payne issued sale catalogues on a regular basis, as did"
"Ernest Alexander Payne Ernest Alexander Payne (19 February 1902 – 14 January 1980) was a British Baptist administrator and scholar. He served the British Baptist Union as a pastor, teacher and writer before becoming its general secretary and president. A dedicated ecumenist, he held high office in the Free Churches, the British Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches, where he was elected president. In recognition of his ecumenical work, he was created a Companion of Honour. He has been mentioned by Hugh Small in connection with the loss of one of Florence Nightingale's childhood manuscripts. M. S."
"many of his contemporaries, and these are now good sources of information about prices, popular books, bookbinding, and other aspects of 18th-century book history. Payne's daughter Sarah married James Burney, a naval officer and brother of novelist Frances Burney, some of whose work Payne had published. He retired to Finchley in 1790 leaving the business in the hands of his son, also Thomas Payne (1752–1831). He is buried at St. Mary’s church in Finchley, north London. Thomas Payne Thomas Payne (c.1718–1799) was an important bookseller and publisher in 18th-century London. Payne was born in Brackley, Northamptonshire. From 1750 he ran"
"described as a ""lightbulb moment"". She was first posted to HM Prison Holloway, a women's prison in London. She went on to become deputy governor at HM Prison Pentonville, a London-based men's establishment. From there she became governor at HM Prison Bullingdon and then HM Prison Oxford, before becoming the area manager for the Thames Valley region. Payne left the Prison Service to become chief executive of YWCA England and Wales, a women and girl's charity that helps more than 11,000 people a year. In December 2010, she was named as the chief executive of the new Wales Probation Trust."
"youth project ""The Youth Zone"" in his hometown of Wolverhampton. Payne saved his best friend Andy Samuels' life following an accidental fire in August 2013. Payne also came to the defence of a waitress when several members of the Tottenham Hotspur team acted inappropriately towards her in a club in London. He saved Calvin Harris from injury during an incident at Miley Cyrus' birthday party in 2013. Payne was named Attitude Magazine's Sexiest Man of the Year in 2015. ""Glamour"" included him on its lists for ""Sexiest Men"" in 2012 and 2013. Payne has been credited by fast food giant"
"of the British government and high-profile figures for the promotion of British fashion; this included assistance from Princess Diana, who became a high-profile clothes-horse for British designs, handed out awards and hosted a reception at Kensington Palace to celebrate fashion's high flyers. Rayne was a natural fit for chair of the British Fashion Council. As ""The Times"" put it in 1988, he: ""marshalled London's notoriously independent-minded designers into a united team, harnessed their creative energy to the financial support provided by the industry's largest clothing manufacturers and retail groups, and provided back up services to those designers who need them""."
"Lady Cynthia Colville Lady Helen Cynthia Colville, née Milnes, later Crewe-Milnes, (20 May 1884 – 15 June 1968) was an English courtier and social worker, serving as a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary, while at the same time devoting her energies to alleviating the suffering of Shoreditch, one of the poorest areas of the East End of London. Helen Cynthia Milnes was the third daughter of Robert Milnes, who succeeded when she was 15 months old as 2nd Baron Houghton (making her the Hon. Cynthia Milnes), by his first wife, the former Sibyl Graham, daughter of Sir Frederick"
"Lady Cynthia Colville Lady Helen Cynthia Colville, née Milnes, later Crewe-Milnes, (20 May 1884 – 15 June 1968) was an English courtier and social worker, serving as a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary, while at the same time devoting her energies to alleviating the suffering of Shoreditch, one of the poorest areas of the East End of London. Helen Cynthia Milnes was the third daughter of Robert Milnes, who succeeded when she was 15 months old as 2nd Baron Houghton (making her the Hon. Cynthia Milnes), by his first wife, the former Sibyl Graham, daughter of Sir Frederick"
"annual income of just £300; an extremely low amount for the widow of a nobleman and relatively influential politician, although it would have allowed her to keep a servant. Lady Lavington died at Hampton Court Palace in London, UK on 2 May 1830. According to biographer W.P. Courtney, Lord Lavington's ""career mirrored the meteoric rise and downfall of absentee sugar planters in Britain."" Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington ""Ralph Payne redirects here. For those of a similar name, see Ralph Paine (disambiguation)"" Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington KB PC (19 March 1739 – 3 August 1807) was a British politician"
"party"" she was hosting after shooting of the film of her life had been completed. Although she was acquitted on this occasion, the resulting court case in 1987 made headlines for several weeks with lurid tales, some details of which she aired on ""The Dame Edna Experience"" in 1987, with co-guests Sir John Mills and Rudolf Nureyev, on which she also launched her book, ""Entertaining at Home"". The court case ended Payne’s career as a party giver. On the programme, Payne expressed an interest in becoming a Member of Parliament in order to change Britain's sex laws, which she followed"
"engagement lasted only a few months; after taking the company on a British tour from Glasgow, Scotland to London, Payne resigned his position. He maintained a friendship with Yeats. The day after resigning his position with the Abbey, he received a note from Horniman, the Abbey patron. She was unhappy with her relationship with the Irish National Theatre (the unhappiness was mutual) and she wanted to sponsor a new theatrical venture, under Payne's direction. Payne proposed establishing a repertory company in Manchester, a major provincial city in England and Payne's boyhood home. With Horniman's funding he established the Manchester Repertory"
"the aftermath, including her campaign for Sarah's Law. The book was published in 2004. In July 2001, it was reported that Payne's parents received £11,000 compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, an executive agency of the UK Government. Sara Payne described the offer as a ""sick joke"" and ""derisory"", even though it was the maximum CICA could offer by law. Sara Payne was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in December 2008 for her work behind Sarah's Law. In December 2009, she suffered a life-threatening stroke and collapsed while at her home in December"
"who remained close friends with Margaret, Duchess of Argyll after the ""headless man"" scandal which, combined with the Profumo affair involving Christine Keeler, threatened to topple the Government of the day. In the 1970s she began running the Embassy Club in Mayfair, which was London's first modern New York City-style nightclub and which attracted many celebrities, including Marvin Gaye, who became a frequent guest at Lady Edith's estate at Sherston, Wiltshire. The Sherston house became notorious for its sex and drugs parties attended by a mixture of show business celebrities and members of the aristocracy. Lady Foxwell and Marvin Gaye"
"meetings, site promotion, environmental improvement. London did not rest on its laurels, a series of major marketing campaigns followed in the 1980s helped by such events as the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer in July 1981. LTB's press and information staff set up a London information point at the Royal Wedding official press centre. While most of LTB's public relations activities were aimed at promoting the Capital, it also had to deal with a number of crises during the 1970s and 1980s which had an impact not just on residents but on visitors to London. Some of the"
"profession, which was now called National Health Service, he immediately went back to work, working at the Queen Charlotte’s Hospital for three years, followed by 7 years with the Neonatal Unit at Hammersmith Hospital. In 1968, Payne's first wife died. In 1971, he married Anne King. Payne moved to Bristol in 1969, where he worked in the Child Health Unit at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children until 1973, when he finally retired. Payne was considered a man of prodigious output but did little writing. These are his most important papers and all apart from the third paper were produced"
"Cynthia Payne. He had a history of depression and committed suicide by hanging on 16 June 1999. At the inquest, his fiancée Yvonne Elwood said he had ""manic depression"". Sutch is buried beside his mother, who died on 30 April 1997, in the cemetery in Pinner, Middlesex. He was survived by a son, Tristan Lord Gwynne Sutch, born in 1975 to American model Thann Rendessy. In 1991, his autobiography, ""Life as Sutch: The Official Autobiography of a Raving Loony"" (written with Peter Chippindale), was published. In 2005 Graham Sharpe, who had known him since the late 1960s, wrote the first"
"used to take young William and Harry for private visits to Centrepoint services and homeless shelters. ""The young people at Centrepoint were always really touched by her visits and by her genuine feelings for them,"" said one of the charity's staff members. Prince William later became the patron of this charity. Diana was a staunch and longtime supporter of charities and organisations that focused on social and mental issues, including Relate and Turning Point. Relate was relaunched in 1987 as a renewed version to its predecessor, the National Marriage Guidance Council. Diana became its patron in 1989. Turning Point, a"
"Hon. Sonia Mary Peake, daughter of Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby and Lady Joan Rachel de Vere Capell. After she married her third husband, she started a business career, with a grocery shop in Basingstoke, soon followed by a furniture shop, which sold three years later for a profit of £1 million, and bought a toiletries company. In 1981, she bought the Ryman stationery shop chain from Ralph Halpern of Burton Group, before selling it in 1987 to Pentos for £20 million, growing the business value by nearly ten times in six years. The success of her later ventures was"
"the Queen to invite him to dinner on the royal yacht HMY Victoria and Albert III in the Cowes Week regatta. In 1948, Shoreditch Council renamed a housing estate on Felton Street estate as ""the Colville estate"" in honour of her long association. In 1963, Lady Cynthia published her autobiography, ""Crowded Life"" NOTE: Lady Cynthia Colville is one of the very few ""double dames"", having, in her case, been knighted in two separate Orders: the Order of the British Empire and the Royal Victorian Order. She died on 15 June 1968, aged 84, at 4 Mulberry Walk, Chelsea, London, England."
"held during its all too brief heyday, attracting official visitors from around the world eager to learn the lessons of its success and apply them in their own countries."" ""It represented the apogee of a type of confident public administration ... with a reputation that any state organisation today would envy ... only made possible by the brilliance of its two famous leaders, Ashfield and Pick."" A memorial to Ashfield was erected at 55 Broadway in 1950 and a blue plaque was placed at his home, 43 South Street, Mayfair in 1984. A large office building at London Underground's Lillie"
"Almeric Paget Massage Corps The Almeric Paget Massage Corps (later the Almeric Paget Military Massage Corps) was a British physiotherapy service during the First World War. On the outbreak of the First World War, Almeric Paget and his first wife, the American socialite Pauline Payne Whitney, offered the services of 50 trained masseuses to the British War Office. The offer was accepted and by November 1914, 50 women had been placed in military hospitals. At this time the demand for physiotherapy (or Massage and Electrical Treatment as it was known) increased and the Pagets were asked to open a day"
"restricted or are largely housebound, to excursions, concerts and holidays. The Duchess of Kent stepped down as patron in 2000, when the duties were taken on by The Princess Royal. Not Forgotten Association The Not Forgotten Association is a British Armed Forces registered charity for serving and ex-service men and women that operates throughout the United Kingdom. Whilst major care is provided by state, Ministry of Defence or other charity sources, the NFA provides extras that able-bodied people take for granted. At the outbreak of the First World War, United States soprano Marta Cunningham was resident in London. She undertook"
"She qualified in 1906 and held house appointments at the Royal Free Hospital until her marriage in 1908. During the First World War, Payne became commandant and medical officer in Torquay at the Red Cross Hospital for wounded soldiers. In the 1918 Birthday Honours, she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her work. Payne developed an interest in psychoanalysis during the war and began training with Edward Glover at the Medico-Psychological Clinic on Brunswick Square, London. She went to Berlin, where she underwent analysis with Hans Sachs and got to know Karl Abraham. In"
"an alternative to male-centred pubs. Tea had previously been a luxury for the rich, but from the 1830s it was promoted as an alternative to alcoholic drinks, and many new cafés and coffee houses were opened, catering more for ordinary people. However it was not until the 1880s that tea rooms and tea shops became popular and fashionable. In 1878 Miss Kate Cranston opened her first tearoom, the Crown Luncheon Room, on Argyle Street, Glasgow. She set high standards of service, food quality and cleanliness, and her innovation lay in seeing the social need for something more than a restaurant"
"inn. Clive Payne (1950–), former professional footballer for Norwich City and Bournemouth was born in Aylsham. Humphry Repton (1752–1818), the landscape gardener who lived at nearby Sustead, is buried in St Michael's Churchyard, and his watercolours provide a fascinating record of the Market Place in the early 19th century. Kathleen Starling (1890–ca 1970) became an opera singer under the name of Kathleen Destournel. She sang at Covent Garden and entertained troops in North Africa during the Second World War, before moving to Arizona, USA until her husband's death after which she returned to Aylsham to live with her sisters. Nick"
"and Pedro. With his brother Harry, Fred appeared regularly at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. In 1877, while engaged in the pantomime at the Alexandra Palace, he became what the newspaper ""The Era"" called mentally ""affected"", and he never fully recovered from this affliction. He died at 3 Alexandra Road, Finsbury Park, London, on 27 February 1880, aged only 39. Payne Brothers Harry Payne (25 November 1833 – 27 September 1895) and Frederick Payne (January 1841 – 27 February 1880) were members of a popular Victorian era of British pantomime entertainers. They were billed as The Payne Brothers. Fred Payne became"
"Edmund Payne Edmund James ""Teddy"" Payne (14 December 1863 – 15 July 1914), was an English actor, comedian and singer best known for creating comic roles in a series of extremely successful Edwardian musical comedies. He was often paired with the comic actor George Grossmith, Jr. After about a decade touring and in stock productions, Payne joined the company at the Gaiety Theatre in London, gaining notice for creating a comic character in the musical ""In Town"" (1892). He spent more than two decades at the Gaiety, using his diminutive stature, malleable features, distinctive lisp and comic dance ability to"
"an MP, a number of solicitors and company directors and several vicars"". A cartoon in the press at the time, according to Sarah Baxter in ""The Sunday Times"", ""showed a vicar in bed with a prostitute, confronted by a policeman. 'I demand to see my solicitor,' said the vicar, 'who is in the next bedroom.'"" When the case came to trial in 1980, Payne was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, reduced to a fine and six months on appeal. She served four months in Holloway prison. In 1986, the police raided Payne’s home again, this time during a ""special"
"central aspect of aristocratic society in England by the 1680s, particularly among women who drank it while gossiping in the home. Catherine of Braganza’s introduction of tea to ladies was significant because it made tea an acceptable drink for both sexes, when it easily could have been categorized as a men’s drink if it had remained only available in the coffeehouses that only men frequented. Wealthy ladies’ desire to show off their luxurious commodities in front of other ladies also increased demand for tea and made it more popular. Another factor that made tea desirable among the elite crowd was"
"to head one of the four Inns of Court when she became its Treasurer in 1985. She retired from judicial office in 1988. Her hobbies included golf and walking, and she was a keen member of Soroptimist, the worldwide organisation for women in management and professions, working to advance human rights and the status of women. She was an honorary Colonel of the East Lancashire Battalion of the WRAC and according to her obituary in ""The Guardian"" she made news as the first woman in Liverpool to wear a calf-length evening dress. In 1945, she married the Dublin-born general practitioner,"
"completely accepted by the elite ""ton"". Social positions could be altered or determined by income, houses, speech, clothing, or even manners. Climbing the social ladder could take generations, particularly into the aristocracy, who did not readily accept those perceived to be of inferior birth into their ranks. Fashion, etiquette, manners, social customs, and many other aspects of social life were all dictated by the ""ton"". The ""ton's"" generally acknowledged leaders were the Lady Patronesses of Almack's who, during the Regency, included Lady Jersey, Lady Sefton, Lady Cowper, Lady Castlereagh, and Mrs. Drummond Burrell. As London's most exclusive mixed-sex social club,"
"Sylvia Payne Sylvia May Payne (""née"" Moore, 6 November 1880 – 30 May 1976) was one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis in the United Kingdom. Born as Sylvia May Moore in Marylebone, London, the daughter of Rev. Edward William Moore and his wife Letitia. Her father was incumbent of Brunswick Chapel and an adherent of the Higher Life movement, being one of the founders of the Keswick Convention. The family later lived at Wimbledon. Moore was educated at Wimbledon High School, Westfield College (University of London) and the London School of Medicine for Women – later the Royal Free Hospital."