Percy Rivington Pyne II

Percy Rivington Pyne II (May 5, 1857 – August 22, 1929) was a banker, financier, and philanthropist. In 1899, he built the mansion Upton Pyne in Bernardsville, New Jersey, as a summer home. It was named after Upton Pyne in Devon, England, his family's ancestral manor. It was the largest mansion in the area until it was torn down by his daughter in 1982.

Personal life On June 20, 1889, he married Maud Howland (1866–1952), daughter of New York merchant Gardiner Greene Howland. Maud's brother Dulany Howland married Marguerite McClure, who later remarried Ogden Haggerty Hammond, the father of Millicent Fenwick. Together, Percy and Maud Pyne had five children: who married Leta Constance Wright (1892–1957), a daughter of Eben Wright and Leta Pell. who married Florence Ledyard Blair (1893–1982), daughter of banker C. Ledyard Blair. Mary Percy Pyne (b. November 27, 1893, d. May 10, 1994), who married Oliver Dwight Filley (1883–1961), a grandson of Oliver Filley and cousin of Dwight F. Davis. In 1963 she married Charles Suydam Cutting (1889-1972). Percy Rivington Pyne Jr. (1896–1941), a flier with the 103d Aero Squadron during World War I. Meredith Howland Pyne (b. October 5, 1898, d. November 25, 1927), who did not marry.

Pyne died at his Bernardsville, New Jersey, home on August 22, 1929, at the age of 72.