Herbert Gastineau Earle

Dr. Herbert Gastineau Earle (10 August 1882 – 5 June 1946) was an English physiologist.

Dr. Earle was born in Acton, Middlesex, on 10 August 1882, was educated at the City of London School and subsequently Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a foundation scholar and to the Westminster Hospital. He gained a first class in the Natural Science Tripos. He took the Cambridge Bachelor of Arts degree in 1905 and the Master of Arts, Bachelor of Medicine degrees of that University in 1913. He later wrote "... I can well remember taking a course on Physiological Chemistry given by Professor Hopkins, of Cambridge, in which he referred to Biochemistry as the Cinderella of Physiology. I do not remember what the ugly sisters stood for, but it may have been Histology and Electro-Physiology, because it was at this time that the study of the muscle-nerve preparation of the frog became available for students' class work..."

He was a Demonstrator in Physiology from 1904 to 1915 and Joint Lecturer in Biology at the Middlesex Hospital in London from 1909 to 1915. He was also Temporary Assistant Physician at the Royal Waterloo Hospital between 1914 and 1915.

He moved to Hong Kong in 1915 where he spent 18 years until 1928. He was the Professor of Physiology and Biology at the University of Hong Kong and became the founding Chairman of the Physiology in 1918. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1916 to 1920, 1923, and 1925.

In 1916 election, he ran for the elected seat on the Sanitary Board but lost to Dr. F. M. G. Ozorio. In the same year, he acted as Honorary Visiting Physician to the Government Civil Hospital during the absence of George Ernest Aubrey in 1916. He was registered to practice in 1917 and acted as member of the Medical Board in 1918 vice Kenelm Hutchson Digby's absence and again in 1923.

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