Samuel Osborne Habershon

Habershon was born at Rotherham in 1825, and studied medicine (from 1842) at Guy's Hospital, London.

Having been a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London from 1851, and fellow from 1856, he was successively examiner, councillor, and censor, and in 1876 Lumleian lecturer, in 1883 Harveian orator, and in 1887 vice-president of the college.

Habershon died on 22 August 1889 from gastric ulcer, leaving one son and three daughters, including hymnwriter Ada R. Habershon;[1] his wife had died in April of the same year.

As a physician Habershon had a high reputation, especially in abdominal diseases, which he did much to elucidate.

He was the first in England to propose the operation of gastrostomy for stricture of the œsophagus, which Cooper Forster performed on a patient of Habershon's in 1858.