Abstract
Robert Howson Pickard was born at Balshall Heath, Birmingham, on 27 September 1874, the elder of the two sons of Joseph Henry Pickard, a tool manufacturer in Birmingham, and of Alice nee Howson, daughter of Robert Howson of Birmingham. He received his schooling at King Edward’s Grammar School, Camp Hill, Birmingham, which he attended from 1883 to 1891, and where he was one of the pupils of the gifted headmaster, the Reverend Jamson Smith. From 1891 to 1895 he was a student at Mason University College and obtained the B.Sc. degree of London University in 1895 with first-class honours in chemistry. At the time of Tilden’s departure from Mason College for Imperial College in 1894, Pickard was senior student and secretary of the students’ Chemical Society, and in the following year he became President of the Union and also a postgraduate student under the new professor, P. F. Frankland. To both these distinguished teachers Pickard at different times acknowledged his great indebtedness. Pickard was always a keen sportsman and at Camp Hill was Captain of School Cricket in 1890-1891 and later played both cricket and rugby for Mason College. During his stay in Blackburn he played regularly with the East Lancashire Wanderers’ Cricket Club, but in later years restricted himself to tennis and golf.
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