A BARONET WHO DOES ODD JOBS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 962, 3 May 1930, Page 30

A BARONET WHO DOES ODD JOBS

Does not Worry when He is Out of Work A TITLE, BUT NO MONEY “I was ' just drifting along, doing odd jobs and wondering where the next dollar was coming from, when, a few days ago, I went to the post office at Pepperell and found a letter, which I supposed would be some advertising matter from some draper's shop in Boston. “But it wasn’t advertising. It was a cablegram from solicitors in England advising me of the death of my brother. Sir John Charles Fa gge, baronet, of Stury. Kent, England, and that 1 had succeeded to the title." In his off hand, unemotional manner, John Harry Lee Fagge, known in Pepperell, a little town outside of Boston, as Harry Fagge, clioreman, told the correspondent of a Liverpool paper at his humble Groton Street home, in that quaint old Yankee community, how he came to be Sir John Harry Lee Fagge, tenth baronet, successor to a title that goes back to Cromwell’s time. As he unfolded the story of his life, culminating in the news of his elevation to the nobility of England, he moved about the kitchen collecting old photographs and other personal effects, which he placed in a small portmanteau, in liis early departure for England to “find out where I stand.” Harry Fagge, seemingly, hasn’t the least doubt that he has succeeded to the title. He positively asserts that he is a brother of Sir John Charles Fagge, hart., who died in Dover, England. a few weeks ago. He said that after the death of his father, Sir John William Qharles Fagge, eighth baronet, he lived with his brother and two aunts, Julia Augusta Lee Fagge, wife of David Charles Poole, barrister, and Miss Lucy Harriet Gertrude Fagge, in Liverpool Street, Stury, Dover, England.