In 1929 her husband, Payne, was appointed director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens.
After earning his first Classics degree at Cambridge University, he returned to Greece in 1949–1950 as a member of the British School at Athens.
He had been University of Liverpool travelling Scholar in Architecture in 1909, and a student at the British School at Athens 1909-1912.
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The site was excavated in 1989 by the Atsipadhes Korakias Peak Sanctuary Project, directed by Alan Peatfield, then Curator of the British School at Athens branch at Knossos, now at University College Dublin Ireland.
In 1935, the British School at Athens was celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with an exhibition at Burlington House, London.
In 1889, he was presented by his friends and pupils, under the presidency of the Earl of Carnarvon, with a testimonial in the form of a marble portrait bust of himself by Boehm, now deposited in the Mausoleum room at the British Museum ; the balance of the fund was by his own wish devoted to founding a studentship in connection with the British school at Athens.