[6] She was an advisor to the British Government delegation at the tenth session of the International Labour Conference at Geneva in 1927,[7] and at the 1929 general election she was adopted as Conservative Party candidate in Farnworth.

[10] Shortly after the election it was announced that Pickford had been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the King's birthday honours list "for public services".

[12] She spoke on "Social Legislation" in a Conservative Party lecture at the Ladies' Carlton Club in the spring of 1930,[13] and followed that the next year by talking about the Alternative Vote and Proportional Representation.

[14] She was appointed by the executive committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations to represent them on the Board of Governors of Bonar Law Memorial College.

[18] Early in 1932, she was named as a member of the Franchise Committee which was to assist the Round Table Conference on India by making recommendations on the conditions in which Indians could obtain the right to vote.

[27] In December 1932 Pickford spoke in a Liberal Party debate on housing in London, commenting that in her constituency some working-class people paid more than half their income in rent.

[30] Tributes were paid by senior politicians, with the Chairman of the Joint Select Committee Lord Lothian referring to her as "one .. whose charm and good comradeship will indeed be sadly missed by each one of her colleagues".

Sir Samuel Hoare remarked on her "mind ready for action, a sympathy and a sanity that never failed, and a vigorous and human personality that always impressed itself on friends and colleagues.