Family Life
Born Margaret Amy Chubb in 1893, she married Geoffrey Pyke in late 1918. They had one son, David Pyke, who graduated from medical school in the mid-1940s and went on to become one of the leading experts on diabetes.
In 1923, Margaret found herself to be the object of the affection of Frank Ramsey. The Pykes took Ramsey into their family, taking him on holiday, asking him to be the godfather of their young son. Ramsey made overtures to Margaret:
One afternoon I went out alone with her on Lake Orta and became filled with desire and we came back and lay on two beds side by side she reading, I pretending to, but with an awful conflict in my mind. After about an hour I said (she was wearing her horn spectacles and looking superlatively beautiful in the Burne Jones style) ‘Margaret will you fuck with me?’
Margaret wanted time to consider his proposition and thus began an uncomfortable dance between. Ramsey married Lettice Baker in September 1925 and died in January 1930 aged 26.
Her husband committed suicide in 1948.
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