Laurence Richard Dimond Pyke (1908 – July 1987) was an Australia

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n headmaster and university

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 dean

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Pyke was the son of Richard, an accountant, and Lillian, a teacher, journalist and author. He was one of three children and was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne

Wesley College, Melbourne

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. Pyke graduated as a Bachelor of Science

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 form the University of Melbourne

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 and was a Rhodes Scholar

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 1934. From 1952 to 1960 he was headmaster of Newington College

Newington College

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, Sydney

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, and later dean of graduate studies at the University of Melbourne. He died in July 1987.

External links

• Beverley Kingston, 'Pyke, Lillian Maxwell (1881–1927)', Australian Dictionary of Biography
  Australian Dictionary of Biography
  The Australian Dictionary of Biography is a national, co-operative enterprise, founded and maintained by the Australian National University to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history....
  
  , Supplementary Volume, MUP, 2005, pp 329–330