Mr Augustus Henry Aldworth was born in Hendred, Berkshire, England on 21 November 1876.

He was the son of Boaz Aldworth (1839-1899) and Mary Frewin (b. 1840). His father was a farmer, also from Hendred whilst his mother was born in Oxfordshire.

He had seven known siblings: Edith Eliza (b. 1864), Mary Jane (b. 1865), Walter (b. 1868), Euphimia Elizabeth (b. 1870), Naomi Frewin (b. 1872), Ruth Janet (b. 1875) and Ethel Annie Frewin (b. 1880).

Augustus first appears on the 1881 census living with his family at an unspecified address in East Hendred, and by the time of the following census in 1891, the family had moved to Foreman's (?) Lane Cottage in St Giles, Reading. Augustus, then aged 14, had already left school and was working as a farm labourer. His father Boaz died before the turn of the new century in 1899, aged 60, and, perhaps around the same time, Augustus left behind his farming career and struck out to work for wealthy families in London. He appears on the 1901 census as a footman in the employ of a wealthy household, Mr Henry G. Thompson and his family, who were then living at 19 Portman Square, Marylebone, London.

Described as a chauffeur, Augustus was married in Jesus Church, Enfield, London on 12 March 1907 to Eleanor Alice Byford (b. 12 April 1881), a domestic maid who hailed from Enfield. 

The newlyweds welcomed a daughter before the close of the year, Alice Mary, who arrived on 16 December 1907. The small family appeared on the 1911 census living at 3 Quebec Mews, Parham Square, London and Augustus was still described as a domestic chauffeur.

Augustus was employed by the wealthy Carter family of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania as their chauffeur, and he boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a second-class passenger (ticket number 248744, costing £13). The Carters travelled in first class. The Carters' 25 Horsepower Renault automobile was stored in the ship's forward hold and was listed on the cargo manifest.

Whilst the entirety of the Carter family was saved, Augustus Aldworth was lost in the sinking. His body, if recovered, was never identified.

His estate, worth £1043, 14s was paid to a tool manufacturer named Walter Farrow on 9 June 1913. Walter Farrow (b. 1868), a London-born man who was married with a family. The relationship between the two men is not known.

Augustus' widow Eleanor never remarried and, in later life, lived at 53 Redburn Street in Chelsea. She died on 21 February 1936.

His daughter Alice Mary was married in 1930 to Henry Morrison Blanchard (1906-1969) and they had three children: Beryl, Hilary and Gillian. She died in Ashford, Kent, in January 1981.