Word: accoucheur
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Died. Sir John Williams, 86, accoucheur at the birth of Edward now Prince of Wales, Emeritus Professor of Midwifery at University College, London; at Aberystwyth, Wales...
...Elizabeth, Duchess of York, lay thus abed, the Duke, second son to George V., R. I., awaited anxiously the opinion of Sir Henry Simpson, husband of famed actress Lena Ash well, and accoucheur to royalty. Sir Henry Simpson had previously allowed it to become noised about that the Duchess would not be delivered for another fortnight. When he stated last week, that the royal birth was imminent, and that "a certain form of treatment"* had been resorted to after, consultation with other physicians, excitement and anxiety were rife among Britons...