Graham Pye
Honorary fellowship
Year conferred: 2005
Graham Pye was born in Oxford and educated at Magdalen College School, where he was a governor from 1987 to 2000 and is a current Governor, having re-joined in 2006.
He was chairman and managing director of the Pye Group of Companies, housebuilders who have built extensively in the UK and are also developing in Ontario, Canada. Graham Pye was twice President of the House Builders Federation - in 1985 and 1990. Graham also dedicated a great deal of his time and energy to music. His charitable interests included Music at Oxford, where he was Chairman of the Trustees.
His interests included skiing, scuba-diving, sailing and fine wine. He was an Honorary Fellow at University College and Harris Manchester College, Oxford and a Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire.
Graham sadly died in June 2009.
