Arthur Gay Payne
Arthur Gay Payne, who also wrote under the pseudonym Phillis Browne was an English sports editor and writer on cookery.Biography
The son of John Robert Payne, Payne was educated at University College School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. There he coxed his college boat. A friend of the athlete J. G. Chambers, he advised and helped the swimmer Matthew Webb. From 1871 to 1883 he was the sporting editor of the Standard, He also edited The Billiard News from 1875 to 1878, and was assistant editor of Land and Water until 1883. He contributed to Bell's Life in London, Girl's Own, and Cassell's Popular Recreation.
Payne was not a vegetarian but authored an early vegetarian cookbook Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery in 1891.Works
- Art of Swimming, by Matthew Webb, 1875
- Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery, 1875-6
- Common Sense Cooking, 1877
- , 1882
- Billiards, by W. Cook, 1884
- Cassell's Shilling cookery, 1888
- , 1891
- , 1905
- , 1906
