ABSTRACT
Geoffrey Pyke was born in 1894, one of the four children of Lionel Pyke, a successful and well-to-do Jewish barrister with political ambitions and his wife, Mary. Geoffrey proposed that one of these sons should move into the Pyke household to be company and provide intellectual stimulation for his own son, David Pole. Geoffrey then decided that the only way he was going to obtain for his son the sort of education he thought appropriate was to found a school himself, run along lines that he himself approved; hence the advertisement. Geoffrey Pyke had very similar ideas to Susan Isaacs but was particularly interested in the creation of outstanding scientists. Once the discussions between Geoffrey and Susan had reached sufficient agreement, Geoffrey rented the Malting House and moved into it with his wife, Margaret and his son, David, in the summer of 1924.
