Alfred Payne (cricketer, born 1849)
Alfred Ernest Payne was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of Frederick Alexander Payne, he was born at Pentre Ucha, Oswestry, Shropshire, in December 1849. He was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School. He later studied at Pembroke College, Oxford and was by 1879 a student of the Inner Temple, though he was never called to the bar. Instead he became a Church of England clergyman.
He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1883. He played first-class cricket for the MCC until 1884, making seven appearances. Despite playing as a batsman for the MCC, Payne struggled in first-class cricket, scoring just 64 runs at an average of 5.33. He also made a first-class appearance for W. G. Grace's personal XI against Lord Sheffield's XI at Sheffield Park in 1883.
Below first-class cricket, he played at county level for Shropshire between 1870 and 1904, in 118 matches in which he totaled 3,386 runs, achieved 4 centuries and took 231 wickets. During that time he played at club level for Oswestry and Baschurch in Shropshire and Llanfyllin in Montgomeryshire, Wales.
Payne died aged 77 in June 1927 at Pen-y-Nant, Ruabon, Denbighshire.
