Samuel Osborn (surgeon)

Samuel Osborn FRCS FRHS FZS[1] (15 April 1848, London – 16 April 1936, Datchet, Buckinghamshire) was a British general surgeon, chief surgeon to the metropolitan corps of the St John Ambulance Brigade, obstetrician, gynaecologist, and author.

[2] The only son of Samuel Osborn (1814–1869), FRCS, the junior Samuel Osborn was educated at Epsom College and at Wren's (a "crammer" for the British army examinations) and then entered St Thomas' Hospital, where he was a house surgeon and for five years an anesthetist.

[2] In August 1914 he went to Belgium with three dressers and three surgical nurses, one of whom was his daughter, and took over a Belgian hospital located in a private house at Gembloux.

When they arrived it was found that the village was in possession of German troops, who had advanced so rapidly that they had neither doctors nor nurses.

Osborn was afterwards placed in charge of Lady Dundonald's Hospital at Eaton Square, London.