BARON GOES FISHING
Unmoved By Inheritance (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) i SYDNEY, August 9. Britain’s newest peer, for- ■ merly Mr Harry Eric Bagot, . went fishing yesterday com- ■ pletely unruffled by the news ■ that he had become the I sixth Baron Bagot s With beach rod in hand, . he left his holiday cottage ■at New Brighton, near i Brunswick Heads, on the • New South Wales north coast, to try for jewfish, . Lady Bagot said her husband would fish all day as he ; had done for the last two ; months. Lady Bagot added: “The , news of his barony won’t , worry or affect him in any , way. His only care is that . the fish will still bite.” Lord Bagot learnt last J night that he had inherited , the peerage on the death of ’ a cousin in England. Lady Bagot said that an estate in 1 Staffordshire of about 1000 ’ acres went With the title ' “Apart from that, we do 1 not know what else is in- ! volved," she said. ! Lord Bagot, a retired 1 planter, came to Australia s from Kenya in 1951 and ! made his home in South ! Yarra, -Melbourne. He and Lady Bagot spend three - months each year at New , Brighton to escape the win- ■ ter cold.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29588, 10 August 1961, Page 7
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205BARON GOES FISHING Press, Volume C, Issue 29588, 10 August 1961, Page 7
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