David Randall Pye [SEP] occupation
David Randall Pye
Sir David Randall Pye CB FRS (29 April 1886 – 20 February 1960) was a British mechanical engineer and academic administrator.
David Pye was born in Hampstead, London, England, and educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Pye was appointed CB in the 1937 Coronation Honours. He was appointed provost of University College, London in 1942, and made a Knight Bachelor in 1952.
In the 1955 film "The Dam Busters", Pye was played by Stanley van Beers
Sturge Moore.
The oldest sister was Edith Mary Pye and one of the few women Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour for her work in France during World War I. and the youngest was the artist turned sculptor, Ethel Pye (ca. 1882–1960), who was educated at the Slade School and worked in bronze and wood. Her brothers included David Randall Pye, the scientist and father of the sculptor, William Pye and Edmund Burns Pye (1878-1959), father of David Pye, an accomplished wood-turner