Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on October 25, 2005
Rheumatology 2006 45(6):777-778; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kei166
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Sir George Frederick Still (18681941)
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George Frederick Still (Fig. 1) was born in Highbury, London, on 27 February 1868. He was the son of a surveyor for H.M. Customs and one of 12 children, of whom four died in infancy. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School, where he received a scholarship to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Here he gained first-class honours in the Classical Tripos and was Winchester Prizeman. His interest in the classics continued throughout his life