Alice Mabel Pickering (1860–1939),[1] née Simpson, was an English tennis player who twice reached the final of the Wimbledon Championship.
[2] On her mother's side, Pickering was part of an old north country family, being a great-great-granddaughter of Lord Lever of Alkrington Hall.
Her siblings included Florence Eva Simpson (1865–1923), known as Elva Lorence, a published writer and composer, as well as a painter.
[8] William Pickering became Chief Government Inspector of Mines for Yorkshire and the North Midlands.
[2] After William's death, Alice became involved in numerous charitable endeavours during the First World War running the Arnold Auxiliary Hospital in Doncaster.