Retiring to the prestige post of treasurer of the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich, Payne was actually a patient at the hospital for his last years, and plans for him to move into one of the Prince's residences at Carlton House came to nothing. Payne died in 1803 at the hospital from the strain of his long-service, and was buried at the Church of St. Margaret, Westminster.Payne, John Willett, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Randolph Cocks, Retrieved 27 January 2008 He never married and had no children, however had been one of the lovers of Emma Lyons who later became Lady Hamilton.
