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Sir '''Alfred Donald "Pickle" Pickford''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (20 May 1872 &ndash; 7 October 1947) was an [[England|English]] businessman who made his wealth from [[jute]] in [[British India]] and was an official of [[The Scout Association|The Boy Scouts Association]].<br />
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Pickford was nominated as [[Sheriff of Calcutta]] in 1920 and as a member of the [[Central Legislative Assembly|Indian Legislative Assembly]] in 1921. He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the same year. Pickford received the OBE in the [[1946 New Year Honours]].<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U230421 PICKFORD, Sir Alfred Donald], Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 24 Jan 2012</ref><br />
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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]]. Pickford met and accompanied [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Baden-Powell]] and his wife, [[Lady Baden-Powell|Olave Baden-Powell]] when they toured India in 1921. 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.<ref name="blue">Robert Campbell (1996) ''Mount Morgan 'Blue" Boy Scouts'', http://www.netpages.free-online.co.uk/sha/governor.htm</ref> This was the major purpose of the visits by Overseas Commissioners Pickford and Lt. Col. [[Granville Walton]] in the 1920s and 1930s.<ref name="blue"/> In 1922 Pickford became a member of the committee that wrote the constitution of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement|World Association of the International Scout Movement]]. 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.<ref>John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 19-21, 46, 83, 127, 155, 246</ref><br />
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