Mary Pickford (politician)
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Mary Pickford CBE |
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| Member of Parliament for Hammersmith North |
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In office 27 October 1931 – 24 April 1934 |
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| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | James Gardner |
| Succeeded by | Fielding Reginald West |
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| Born |
Mary Ada Pickford 5 July 1884 |
| Died | 6 March 1934 (aged 49) King Sterndale, Derbyshire |
| Political party | Conservative |
Mary Ada Pickford CBE (5 July 1884 – 6 March 1934) was an English politician, industrialist and historian. After working to support the Conservative Party over several years, she was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1931, and specialised in Indian issues; she also used her knowledge of the factory system gained while working as an inspector during the First World War to speak about employment issues. Pickford supported her constituency through the depression of the 1930s but died suddenly of pneumonia at the age of 49.
Pickford was the daughter of William Pickford who was then a leading barrister on the Northern circuit. William Pickford went on to rise through the profession of law, becoming a Queen's Counsel in 1893, a Recorder from 1901 and a Judge of the High Court of Justice in 1907. In 1914 he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division from 1918. William Pickford received a peerage as Baron Sterndale in November 1918 (from which Mary Pickford received the title 'the Honourable') and he served as Master of the Rolls from 1919 until his death in 1923. Her mother Alice (née Brooke), died only two months after her birth.
Mary Pickford attended Wycombe Abbey School, under Miss Frances Dove. In the summer of 1904 at the age of 19 she was presented at Court as a débutante, and she also escorted her father at social events for the judiciary. She went up to Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford, but her education was interrupted by war service. She worked as an unpaid inspector for the factory department of the Home Office, and from 1917 to 1921 she worked as an assistant on the compilation of the Official History of the War, as a member of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. In 1921 she graduated, both BA and MA, from Oxford.
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