Early Life
Pyke's father, Lionel Edward Pyke, was a Jewish lawyer who died when Geoffrey was only five years old, leaving his family with no money. His mother quarrelled with relatives and made life "hell" for her children. She sent Pyke to Wellington, then a typical public school mainly for the sons of Army officers; there Pyke maintained the dress and habits of an Orthodox Jew. The persecution he suffered instilled him with a hatred of and contempt for the establishment. After two years at Wellington, he was withdrawn, tutored privately and then admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge to study law.
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