Describe the character and role of Colonel Pickering with suitable adjectives and contextual evidences.

Colonel Pickering is a kind old gentlemen who acts as sort of a father figure in the play. Liza and Pickering form a friendship and Liza credits him for her ability to survive Higgins’s cruel social experiment. Pickering, and his good nature, can be seen as a character foil to Higgins’s condescending nature.