Background
He was born on May 5, 1857 in New York City, the son of Percy Rivington Pyne I (1820-1895) and Albertina Shelton Taylor.
He was born on May 5, 1857 in New York City, the son of Percy Rivington Pyne I (1820-1895) and Albertina Shelton Taylor.
Princeton University.
Pyne received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton in 1878 and an Master of Arts degree in 1881. Maud"s brother Dulany Howland married Marguerite McClure, who later remarried Ogden Haggerty Hammond, the father of Millicent Fenwick. Pyne also served as treasurer of the New York Zoological Society from 1903 to 1922.
In New York City, Pyne and his family lived at 680 Park Avenue at the corner of East 68th Street, now home to the Americas Society.
In 1899, he built the mansion Upton Pyne in Bernardsville, New Jersey as a summer home. lieutenant was named after Upton Pyne in Devon, England, his family"s ancestral manor.
Percy and Maud Pyne had five children: Grafton Howland Pyne (b August 11, 1890), Herbert Rivington Pyne (b January 16, 1892), Mary Percy Pyne (b November 27, 1893), Percy Rivington Pyne III (b November 9, 1896), and Meredith Howland Pyne (b October 5, 1898). Pyne died at his Bernardsville, New Jersey home on August 22, 1929 at the age of 72.
