Engaged. Daphne Dolores Mercedes Skouras, 24, daughter of cinema tycoon (20th Century-Fox) Spyros Skouras; and Oren Root Jr., 35, Manhattan lawyer, grandnephew of the late great Elihu Root, organizer of the clubs that won Wendell Willkie the Republican presidential nomination in 1940; in Rye, N.Y.

Married. The Hon. Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, elder daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, suave Admiral of the Royal Navy, wartime Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and John Ulick Knatchbull, seventh Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late Governor of Bombay and Bengal; by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of King George, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of Kent, attended by Bridesmaids Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra; in Romsey, Hampshire, England.

Married. Mignon Eberhart, 47, whodunit hatcher (The White Cockatoo, The Patient in Room 18); and John P. H. Perry, 64, vice president and director of the Turner Construction Co.; both for the second time; in Chicago.

Divorced. By Molly O'Daniel Wrather, 24, daughter of bumbling, boisterous Texas Senator W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel: Jack D. Wrather Jr., 28, member of one of Texas' oil-heeled families; after more than five years of marriage, two children; in San Antonio.

Divorced. Artie Shaw, 36, volatile bandleader and husband; by his fourth wife, Cinemactress Ava Gardner Shaw. 22, ex-Mrs. Mickey Rooney; after a year of Hollywood "marriage," no children; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. Margaret ("Peggy") Guggenheim Ernst, 48, uninhibited daughter of the late copper mogul Benjamin Guggenheim, exhibitionist of nonrealistic art; by Maximilian Maria ("Max") Ernst, 55, prizewinning surrealist (Temptation of St. Anthony) ; after five years of marriage (three of separation), no children; in Reno.

Died. Dr. Leroy Upson Gardner, 67, famed director of the Saranac Laboratory and the Trudeau Foundation, who, during 32 years of research, found methods of curbing silicosis in mines and factories, showed the relationship of silicosis to tuberculosis; of a heart attack; in Saranac Lake, N.Y.

Died. Ernest Thompson Seton, 86, British-born, Canada-reared naturalist-artist-author (Wild Animals I Have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag, etc.), father of Authoress Anya Seton (Dragon-wyck); in Seton Village, N. Mex. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

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