Dr George Edward Hale Enderby
Personal Details
Dr George Edward Hale Enderby LMSSA MB BChir FFARCS DA
Known as: Hale
09/06/1915 to 30/12/2003
Place of birth: Boston, Lincolnshire, England
Nationality: British
CRN: 500098
Education and qualifications
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General education |
After Boston Grammar School he attended Kingswood School, Bath where he won the Victor Ludorum for sports. |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
Primary Medical qualification, Institution and Date |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1953 |
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Other qualification(s) |
DA (RCP&S), 1943 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
On qualifying Enderby was House Officer in Surgery and Anaesthesia, followed by Outpatients Officer, all at Guy’s Hospital. In 1944 he moved to the plastic and burns unit at Rooksdown House, Basingstoke. After the war in 1946 he set up in practice, also taking anaesthetic sessions at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, and the Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, London. In 1951 he moved to be a Consultant Anaesthetist at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead where he worked with the plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe. A visiting professorship at Chicago was awarded to him in 1975-76. He retired in 1986.
Professional interests and activities
The need for a bloodless field in plastic surgery led him to be a pioneer in techniques of hypotensive anaesthesia, including use of methonium drugs, head-up tilt and positive end-expiratory pressure; he used the oscillotonometer for accurate measurement of low blood pressure. Publishing many papers on this from 1950 onwards, by the 1960s he gave lectures on the subject internationally, visiting the USA, Australia, South Africa, Rhodesia, Canada and much of Europe. With time he added halothane, beta blockers and sodium nitroprusside to his list of hypotensive agents. He wrote a chapter on the subject for Gray, Nunn and Utting’s 1980 textbook of anaesthesia and in 1985 he produced his own book “Hypotensive Anaesthesia”. Enderby also designed his own portable anaesthetic machine in 1948, tapered reinforced endotracheal tubes in 1961, and an exhaled gas scavenging system in 1972. From the early 1960s he had a midweek private practice at Harley Street, London. For the Association of Anaesthetists he was a member of Council 1966-68 and organized the technical exhibition of the Fourth World Congress of Anaesthesiology held in London in 1968. For the Faculty of Anaesthetists he was an examiner for the Final Fellowship from 1976 and he served on the Board for 1977-1983. He was awarded the Faculty Medal in 1985. For the Section of Anaesthetics of the Royal Society of Medicine he was Hon. Secretary for 1977-79 and President for 1980/81. In retirement he took on medicolegal work.
Other biographical information
Enderby married Dorothy Grocock in 1940 and they had three children. He played tennis to a high standard until the early 1960s, after which he focused on golf, becoming captain of the Medical Golfing Society in 1965 and its president in 1972-73. His other interests included motor cars and being a Freemason. Described as kind and gentle with an easy manner, he was survived by his wife, three children and seven grandchildren.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Alistair McKenzie
Sources and comments:
[1] Enderby D. ObituaryGeorge Edward Hale Enderby. British Medical Journal 2004; 328: 1263. [2] Barham C. Obituary G E Hale Enderby. The History of Anaesthesia Society Proceedings 2003; 33: 43-44. [3] Medical Registers and Medical Directories.