Career
He was knighted in the same year. Pickford received the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1946 New Year Honours. Pickford was appointed as The Boy Scouts Association"s Calcutta District Commissioner in 1916, and in May 1919 was promoted to Chief Scout Commissioner for India.
In 1922, having returned to England and bought a Surrey estate, Pickford became The Boy Scouts Association"s London Headquarters Commissioner for Overseas Scouts, a position he held until 1929.
The Boy Scouts Association encouraged its branches to seek control of the Scout Movement by obtaining statutory monopolies from respective governments. This was the major purpose of the visits by Overseas Commissioners Pickford and Lieutenant
Colonel Granville Walton in the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1930 he became the Headquarters Commissioner in charge of The Boy Scouts Association"s new Development Department. In 1946 he was Headquarters Commissioner for Publicity for the Boy Scouts Association.
