Dr Andrew Tindal
12/01/1906 to 1983
Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland
Nationality: British
CRN: 715895
Education and qualifications
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General education |
While a student at the University of Glasgow he held the Scottish National 100 yards record for two successive years. |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MB ChB, University of Glasgow, 1929 |
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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), 1940 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
On qualifying Tindal was house surgeon at the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow and at the Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women’s Hospital. He then went into general practice in Strone, Argyll and also at Rothesay. Deciding to specialise in anaesthesia, in 1937 he became visiting anaesthetist to the Western Infirmary, Glasgow – he also attended the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and the Dental Hospital in Glasgow. In 1945 he was appointed Lecturer in Anaesthesia at the University of Glasgow, which lasted until his retirement in 1972.
Professional interests and activities
Tindal was deeply interested in nitrous oxide: in 1937 he and Adam Barr devised the ‘Tindal-Barr analgesia apparatus’ for self-administration of gas and oxygen in labour. It was assembled and distributed by British Oxygen Co. Ltd. In the Physiology Department of Glasgow University he constructed a small hyperbaric chamber in which (1941) he performed successful dental anaesthesia – published in the Glasgow University magazine ‘Surgo’. He was President of the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists for 1960-61. In 1979 he was awarded the Pask Certificate of Honour by the AAGBI for his pioneering work in hyperbaric medicine. He continued an extensive dental anaesthetic practice into the last year of his life.
Other biographical information
Andrew Tindal was inventive and passionate in a wide range of interests, including home decoration, cars, guns and boats. He was well known in Glasgow, often seen driving a 1926 Bentley (4.5 litre) accompanied by his large dogs. His successive yachts increased in size up to 12 metres, and he was an expert sailor on the west coast of Scotland, where he also enjoyed painting. Married twice, he was survived by his second wife, four daughters and two sons. His eldest son became a Consultant Anaesthetist in Toronto, Canada, and his daughter Tilly married Douglas Arthur, who became a Consultant Anaesthetist in Glasgow.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Alistair McKenzie
Sources and comments:
[1] Obituary. Scottish Society of Anaesthetists News Letter 1983: 24
[2] Barr A, Tindal A. A new machine for the self-administration of gas-and-oxygen analgesia in labour. Lancet 1937; 229: 1271-2.
[3] Pinkerton HH. The scope of a pressure chamber in surgery and anaesthesia. Can. Anaes Soc. J. 1962; 9: 389-98.
[4] Medical Registers and Directories. The photograph is courtesy of the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists