The newsreels were not generally known for their radicalism, and tended to
show an extreme deference to the upper classes. All the same, the ascendance of
another minor aristocrat to his hereditary title was not usually considered
worthy of attention. What evidently made this particular subject attractive to
Topical Budget was the clash of status implied in its story of a handyman from a
'Massachusetts hamlet' arriving in Liverpool to collect his baronetcy. Whether
Sir John Harry Lee Fagge remained in England is not recorded, although he seems
to have enjoyed his title for just ten years before his death.
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