Samuel Perkins Pick was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England on 7 May 1859. After training in the office of Frank James Smith in Leicester for six years, he was employed as an assistant in the office of Isaac Barradale (1845-1892) and John Breedon Everard (1844-1923). In 1888 John Breedon Everard formed a partnership with Pick, Everard & Pick. They were later joined by Everard's son, Bernard Everard (1879-1963) to form Everard, Son & Pick. In 1911 William Keay (1869-1952) became a partner in the firm which was renamed Pick, Everard & Keay.
In 1884 Pick was awarded a medal by the London livery company, the Worshipful Company of Plaisterers, for an original design for a low relief panel. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1885 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1889.
Pick participated in the exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society at the Royal Academy in London in 1916 at which he exhibited a headstone in bronze.
During the 1880s Pick taught at Leicester School of Art. He was active in the Leicester Society of Architects and served as its President twice.
Pick's address was given as 39 Guthlaxton Street, Leicester in 1885; and 2 Salisbury Street, Leicester in 1911 and 1919. His office was located at 16 Severn St, Leicester in 1889 and 1891; and 6 Millstone Lane, Leicester in 1894 and 1914.
Pick died in Leicester on 22 May 1919.
Notable among architectural projects by Pick were the Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College at Kingston-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire (1895); buildings for the Technical and Art Schools [later the Hawthorn Building of De Montfort University] in Leicester (1896-97, 1907); St. Michael and All Angels Church in Leicester (1897-98); Parr’s Bank in St. Martin’s in Leicester (1900); the County Mental Hospital [later known as Carlton Hayes Hospital] in Narborough (1904-07); and St. Phillip’s Church in Leicester (1909-13),
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
‘In Memoriam. Samuel Perkins Pick F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A.’. Transactions of Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society vol. 11, parts. 7 and 8, 1919, pp. 401-405.
‘Obituary’. RIBA Journal vol. 26, 1919 pp. 194, 200, 212