Background
Oliver Gregory Pike was born in 1877 in Enfield, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom.
1945
Oliver Gregory Pike with his wife Anne Chapman
The old Enfield Grammar School building
filmmaker naturalist Photographer
Oliver Gregory Pike was born in 1877 in Enfield, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom.
Oliver Gregory Pike studied at Enfield Grammar School until 1893, where he became friends with a local commercial photographer and ornithologist Reginald Badham Lodge. He accompanied Lodge while he worked, taking his first photograph of a wildflower at the age of 13, in the autumn of 1890.
Oliver Gregory Pike began taking photographs in 1890 and writing nature articles in 1899. A popular lecturer, he visited over 300 towns between 1898 and 1948.
Oliver Pike served in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I (1917-1919) and was an officer of the Home Guard during World War II. As a filmmaker he produced more than thirty documentaries on British mammals, birds, pond life, and other nature subjects, completing his first one in 1907.
A Fellow of RPS, Pike was on its council from 1924 to 1948.
Quotes from others about the person
According to Bryony Dixon of BFI Screenonline: "His claim to significance lies, in the groundbreaking techniques, he developed to capture animals in their natural habitats and in the fact that he passed this knowledge on."