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- [1940s] - 1953 (Creation)
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Material relating to Alicia Still comprising printed copy of Dame Alicia Lloyd Still, DBE RRC, a memoir, Lucy Ridgley Seymer, Nightingale Fellowship, St. Thomas's Hospital: London, May 1953; and two black and white photographs of Dame Alicia.
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Alicia Still was the daughter of Henry Lloyd Still, Ceylon Civil Service, of Walton by Clevedon, Somerset. She was educated at home, and at the Nightingale Training School, St Thomas's Hospital.
Still was appointed as Sister, St Thomas's Hospital; Matron, Brompton Hospital; Matron, Middlesex Hospital; Matron St Thomas's Hospital and Superintendent Nightingale Training School, St Thomas's Hospital, 1913-1937.
She was also a Member of Queen Alexandra's Army Nursing Board and Imperial Nursing Service Committee; President Association of Hospital Matrons, 1919-1937; President International Council of Nurses, 1933-1937; President Florence Nightingale International Memorial Foundation and Chairman of Committee of Management, 1934-1939; Vice-President National Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee and member of Executive Committee; International Florence Nightingale Medal, 1933, of the League of Red Cross Societies.
Created DBE, 1934; CBE 1917; RRC; Lady of Grace of Order of Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England.
She died 23 July 1944.