He was the younger son of Geoffrey Basset Wardell-Yerburgh, by his marriage in 1935 to Elizabeth Alis Georgina Kenyon, daughter of G. L. T. Kenyon, a grandson of Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, and had an older brother, Oswald Kenyon (born 1936). They were grandsons of Oswald Wardell-Yerburgh (1858–1913).[2]
In 1968 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta.
Wardell-Yerburgh died in a traffic accident at the age of 32.[2][4] He was the husband of Janet Wardell-Yerburgh.
References
1. ^1 2 Hugh Arthur Wardell-Yerburgh at douglashistory.co.uk, accessed 3 April 2019
2. ^1 Abilene Reporter-News. 29 January 1970. Page 29
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