Education
He was educated at Bedford Modern School and the City and Guilds’ Technical College, Finsbury, London.
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He was also the first occupant of the Corporation Chair of Engineering, South African College, Cape Town (1903-1905) where he designed and equipped the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Departments. Payne"s entry in the Dictionary of National Biography describes him as "Dignified in manner and precise in speech, he was respected as a man of principle". Henry Payne was born on 9 March 1871 in Calcutta, India, the son of Revd.
Payne received his practical training with Merryweather & Company
Limited of Greenwich. Payne was appointed a Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Mathematics at University College London in 1898 and to membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1900. He left University College London in 1902 to become the first occupant of the Corporation Chair of Engineering, South African College, Cape Town (1903-1905) where he designed and equipped the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Departments.
He later organised and carried out large extensions to the Engineering School of the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Engineering.
