Ronald Payne
Ronald Staveley Payne (6 February 1926 – 25 May 2013), or Ronnie Payne, was a British journalist and war correspondent who focused on espionage and terrorism. Early life Ronald Payne was born on 6 February 1926 in Ripon, Yorkshire, England. His father was a Primitive Methodism, Primitive Methodist minister. Payne was educated at Pocklington Grammar School and Bedford School. During World War II, he served in the Royal Marines. He subsequently attended Jesus College, Oxford. Career Payne began his career as a journalist at the ''Reading Mercury''. He subsequently wrote for the ''London Evening Standard''. In 1953, he joined the ''Daily Telegraph'', first as a reporter and later as a foreign correspondent in Paris. He wrote about French Algeria and French Indochina. He also wrote about the Suez Crisis in 1956, and he interviewed Muammar Gaddafi in 1976. Payne co-authored several books with Christopher Dobson. He was also the author of six non-fiction books about espionage or t ...
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Ron Payne
Ronald George Payne (22 October 1925 – 9 April 2015) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Mitchell Mitchell may refer to: People *Mitchell (surname) *Mitchell (given name) Places Australia * Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory, a light-industrial estate * Mitchell, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst * Mitchell, Northern Territo ... for the Labor Party from 1970 to 1989. References Members of the South Australian House of Assembly 1925 births 2015 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ...
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