Mary Pickup

Mary Elizabeth Pickup (1881-1938) was a British solicitor.[1]

She earned a BA degree from the University of Wales.[1]

She married in 1910.[1] In 1911 she had a daughter, Evelyn, and in 1914 she had another daughter, Joan.[1]

In 1922 Pickup, Maud Crofts, Mary Sykes, and Carrie Morrison became the first women in England to qualify as solicitors; Morrison was the first of them to finish her articles, and was the first woman admitted to the role of solicitor.[2] Pickup was admitted as such in 1923.[1] She eventually became a partner with her husband (who was also a solicitor) in the firm Redfern & Co.[3][1] In 1931 she was appointed as chair of the Special Court of Referees under the Unemployment Insurance Acts for the trial of married women’s claims.[3]

She also served as President of the Birmingham Soroptimist Society, which created a Mary Elizabeth Pickup Memorial Fund after she died.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Mary Elizabeth Pickup". first100years.org.uk.
  2. ↑ 5 March 2009 (2009-03-05). "Majority stake | News | Law Society Gazette". Lawgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  3. 1 2 The Law Journal. E.B. Ince. 1938. p. 251.
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