Mary Pickup

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

She earned a BA degree from the University of Wales.

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

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. Pickup was admitted as such in 1923. She eventually became a partner with her husband (who was also a solicitor) in the firm Redfern & Co. 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.

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

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