AUCTIONEER BARONET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20520, 22 March 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

AUCTIONEER BARONET.

TITLE AT SIXTY-ONF. " ROLLING-STONE'S CAREER. After living alone at Peppercll, Massachusetts, for a quarter of a century, Mr. John Harry Lee Fagge, aged 61, has been informed that he is now a baronet. He succeeds his brother, Sir John Charles Fagge, who died at Dover on January 16. Mr. Fagge has been a rolling stone and a Jack-of-all trades —tending lawns, repairing furniture, and acting as auctioneer-

but before this he lost. a fortune. The new baronet is belioved to he on his way to England. He was last there 20 years ago. The romantic story of how Mr. Fagge left England with a fortune in his pocket and lost all his money in America was told by his only sister, Miss Fagge, who is a teacher at a children's hostel at Beckenham, Kent. Miss Fagge said; — " I have only seen him twice in the past 40 years. When he was 19 lie said goodbye to us. saying he was taking all his money and belongings to America, where he was going to multiply his capital and make a huge fortune. But, alas! ho soon spent or lost all his money—l don't know how it all went. But he told me in a lette.- he was buying some orange-grow-ing farms in Florida and hoped to do well out of finit-farming. " I think he must have lost all in Florida, for the next time I heard from him he was getting any sort of work he could find and doing any kind of job. I don't know whether there arc any estates or any property left to the family; wo used to have extensive estates in Sussex, but I believe they are sold."

Miss Fagge added'that she believed her brother married an American woman, who died some years ago, leaving him with a baby daughter, who would now be in her twenties.