Known, perhaps, to only m few people in Shanghai, but regarded by them as a most kindly and lovable figure, Mr. Richard Lionel Pyke died at the General Hospital bf pneumonia early yesterday morning, after an illness of one week. Mr. Pyke came here nearly two years ago for the Institute of Pacific Relations, in Order to supervise the publication of their statistical and research volumes.
He was to have gone back to England this week on a trip through Java and other places in the Far East, which he had been planning and looking forward to for more than a year. Mr, Pyke had no parents alive, and regarded a small cottage in Kent as his home. Mr. Pyke was 38 years' old, and graduated from King's College, Cambridge. He was very musical and possessed of considerable intellectual gifts
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