Sir Wilfrid Percy Henry Sheldon (1901-1983) was an English consulting physician.
He wrote one of the first major textbooks of paediatric medicine and was physician-paediatrician to the household of Queen Elizabeth II for nearly 20 years.
Together with researchers in Holland, Sheldon was responsible for the discovery that coeliac disease is related to wheat products in the diet.
[4] He was one of the few full-time early practitioners of paediatric medicine in Britain during this era, when volunteer hospital consultants were not paid for their services.
Sheldon was physician-paediatrician to the household of Queen Elizabeth II from 1952 to 1971,[7] a period covering the childhoods of the royal siblings Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward.