Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 1st Baronet
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He was the youngest son of Ralph Payne by his second spouse Margaret née Gallwey, of St. Kitts, West Indies. He had served as a Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
in India, and was at one point second-in-command of the British Army
British Army
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in Spain. Thereafter he was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands
The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies. They are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. As a group they start east of Puerto Rico and reach southward to Dominica. They are situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean...
. General Payne was the half-brother of Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington
Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington
Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington KB PC was a British politician and Governor of the Leeward Islands.-Early life and education:...
(d. 1807), who had also served as Governor of the Leeward Islands.
General William Payne was created a Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 December 1812. On 7 March, 1814 he assumed by Royal Sign Manual the additional surname of Gallwey, in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle Tobias Wall Gallwey of St. Christopher Island
Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla was historically an overseas territory of the United Kingdom located in the Caribbean Sea. This entity later became a province to the short lived West Indies Federation in 1958...
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On 19 November, 1804, William Payne married Lady Harriet Quinn (d. 13 December, 1845), only daughter of Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 1st Baronet was an Irish Peer.He had presumably chosen the title of ‘Dunraven’ in honour of his daughter-in-law, Caroline Wyndham, who had married his eldest son in 1810. His earldom lasted only two years and in 1824 his son, Windham...
. They had two sons and a daughter, Caroline. Their second son, Philip, had seven sons, two daughters, and many descendants. Sir William was succeeded by his eldest son and heir, Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 2nd Baronet was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1851 to 1880....
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