London-born Payne was a critic and composer who studied at Durham University. His compositions included orchestral music, chamber music and songs, some of the latter for his wife Jane Manning, who pre-deceased him by a month, but he will probably be best known for “completing” Elgar’s Third Symphony from the composer’s sketches, not to mention shorter Elgar pieces like the 6^th Pomp and Circumstance March. I have happy memories of meeting him (and Jane) when he came to talk to the Elgar Society’s York and North East Branch some years ago.

Philip L. Scowcroft