From 1935 to 1940, Pine was an assistant editoratBurke's Peerage Ltd. During World War II he was an officer in the Royal Air Force intelligence branch, serving in North Africa, Italy, Greece and India; he retired with the rank of Squadron Leader. After the war and until 1960, he was Burke's executive director. Pine edited Burke's Peerage, 1949–1959; Burke's Landed Gentry (of Great Britain), 1952; Burke's Landed Gentry (of Ireland), 1958; and, Burke's Distinguished Families of America, 1939, 1947. He also edited The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who, 1953–1960; Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 1948, 1960; Who's Who in Music, 1949; and, Who's Who in the Free Churches, 1951.[3] He was a consultant for Burke's from 1984.[2]
Pine was managing editor of a British hunting magazine, Shooting Times, from 1960 to 1964.[4] He later authored an important book highly critical of sport hunting, After Their Blood, in which he wrote: "It is our duty as men and women of God's redeemed creation to try not to increase the suffering of the world, but to lessen it. To get rid of bloodsports will be a great step toward this end."
In 1948 Pine married Grace Violet (20 August 1914 – 5 November 2019), daughter of Albert Griffin and Margaret Emily (née Stowers), of Chelmsford.[1] Their only child, Richard Pine, was born in London on 21 August 1949. Pine died in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in 1987.[2][5]
^ abThe Augustan Society Omnibus, vol. 8, The Augustan Society, 1986, p. 25.
^ abcWho was Who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died, Volume 8, A. & C. Black, 1981, p. 600.
^ England & Wales, Death Index: 1984–2004 Record, Volume 10, Page 2278, from Ancestry.com
^The Times, Deaths, 1982–1988 Record, from Ancestry.com
^ Contemporary Authors. A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Volume 122. Detroit: Gale Research, 1988.