David Yale

[7] As he approached 18, he decided that he must go to Queens' College at Cambridge University after the discoveries of his great-uncle who was keen on genealogies.

[7] Upon graduating in 1949 with a starred first and then completing a postgraduate LLB in 1950, he was elected a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge.

[8] In 1961, while on his first sabbatical leave, he spent a year in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife Elizabeth Ann Brett.

[4] He was elected to the Council of the Selden Society in 1962, and later, literary director and president of this institution (the latter from 1994 to 1997), and worked with Stroud Francis Charles Milsom and Sir John Baker.

[14][15][8][12] Past members have included Mahatma Gandhi, John Maynard Keynes and Sir Francis Drake.

[10] During the 17th century, King Charles I of the House of Stuart had given the rights to all mine and minerals within the old Lordship, and there was a contention between the Crown Estate and the family.

[10] He worked on the side of the Grosvenors and the whole thing was settled through a settlement sum made by the Crown to the family.

Coat of arms of David Yale's grandfather, Col. James Corbet Yale of Plas-yn-Yale, their ancestral seat [ 1 ]
Plas yn Yale (Plas yn Ial), Wales, modern structure, past mansion was demolished
Castell Deudraeth , a Welsh castle belonging to the cousin of David Yale's grandfather Charles Breese , named David Williams , Member of Parliament
Porthmadog in Snowdonia , where Yale retired
Tudor era " Yale Chapel ", built by Dr. Thomas Yale in 1575, Col. James Corbet Yale was buried there