My friend Michael Pickersgill, who has died aged 76, had a deep commitment to the scouting movement and took dozens of young people on camps all over Europe. Scouting, teaching, the National Liberal Club, the Knights of the Round Table charity and his family were all important to him.
Having joined the scouts as a schoolboy, and become an assistant district commissioner at the age of 25, in 1983 he was made one of Greater London’s county commissioners in scouting. For more than 30 years Michael was also a member of the National Liberal Club (NLC), and its chairman between 2014 and 2017. He was hugely proud to see his name on the board in the foyer, beneath that of William Gladstone, the first chairman.
