Born:
Died: April 10, 1997
Married: Alfred J. Yardley
Children: Alfred J. Yardley Jr., Pamela Paul
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New York Times, November 18, 1932
AUGUSTA H. DU VAL ENGAGED TO MARRY
New York Girl's Betrothal to Alfred J. Yardley Announced by Her Mother.
BOTH OF NOTABLE ANCESTRY
Bride-Elect Is the First New York Debutante of the Season to Tell Her Bridal Plans.
Mrs. Clive Livingston Du Val of 30 East Seventieth Street, and Clivesden, Stockbridge, Mass., has announced the engagement of her daughter. Miss Augusta Harper Lynde Du Val, to Alfred Jenkins Yardley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Farnham Yardley of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J. Miss Du Val is the first debutante of the season to announce her engagement. Both she and Mr. Yardley are descendants of families who were prominent in the early history of the United States. Miss Du Val, through her father, the late Clive Livingston Du Val, is descended from Robert Livingston, the first Lord of the Manor, and from the French Huguenot, Mareen Du Vall, who settled near Baltimore, Md. in 1645.
On the maternal side, Miss Du Val is descended from the Elizabethan scholar, Sir Humphrey Lynde, and from Theophilus Eaton, first Governor of New Haven Colony in the early part of the seventeenth century. Joseph Wesley Harper, one of the founders of the publishing firm of Harper Bros., was the great-great-grandfather of Miss Du Val. She was graduated last Spring from the Chapin School, and is a provisional member of the Junior League of New York.
On the paternal side Mr. Yardley is descended from William Biles, a signer of the Pennsylvania Great Charter, who was a member of the Colonial Assembly of Pennsylvania for more than forty years, from 1694 to 1736. On the maternal side Mr. Yardley is descended from three signers of the first Magna Charta, Richard and Gilbert de Clare, and William Malet.
Mr. Yardley was graduated from the Fountain Valley School of Colorado, and is a member of the Raquet and Tennis Club of New York. He is with the firm of Jenkins Bros., which was founded by his great-grandfather, the late Nathaniel Jenkins of Boston.
No date has been set for the wedding.
