The daughter of a London sugar refiner, in 1786 she married John Dyer Collier; she was the mother of the antiquary John Payne Collier.

REFERENCES TO Jane Collier [née Payne]:

Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 2 January 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Henry Crabb Robinson, [7 February 1810] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Mary Lamb to Jane Payne Collier, [Autumn 1812] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to John Dyer Collier, [4 October? 1812] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Jane Payne Collier, 2 November 1824 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)