George Frederic Still

Sir George Frederic Still (1868 to 1941) was an English paediatrician who helped to establish paediatrics as a new discipline and is often called the Father of British Paediatrics. Born in Highbury, London, the only boy of eight children, he won scholarships to the Merchant Taylors' School and to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and graduated from King's College London School of Medicine in 1893. In 1897 he published a thesis describing a form of childhood febrile arthritis now known as Still's disease, and the common functional Still's murmur also bears his name. His Goulstonian Lectures on abnormal physical conditions in children are often cited as an early description of what is now called ADHD. He established the department for the diseases of childhood at Guy's Hospital in 1893, worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and was knighted on retiring in 1937.