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From the days of the dime novel through the era of soap opera, U.S. romantics have dreamed of inheriting an estate and a title in Great Britain. Early this year the dream came true for 60-year-old Adrian Ivor Dunbar, a handyman from Upper Fairmount, Md. Adrian left England more than 40 years ago, made his way to the U.S. in slow stages via Australia and Canada, married a comely widow, fathered two sons (both now in the U.S. Army) and in 1939 became a U.S. citizen. Last January, at the deaths of two cousins whom he had never...
...Maryland neighbors oohed and aahed over his good fortune, Sir Adrian sold his tools and made ready to claim his inheritance. "I have no highfalutin ideas about getting into society," the new baronet told reporters who met him in Southampton last month. "I am poor as Job's cat, and I'm satisfied to go on living that way . . . but this is an honor-kinda historic...
Haggis & Bees. In the village of Newton Stewart, Sir Adrian's tenants welcomed him with a bang-up banquet featuring bagpipes and a steaming haggis. An obliging cousin lent him a Dunbar tartan. Then the new baronet went out to have a look for himself at Mochrum Park, the ancestral seat of the Dunbar family...
Death & Taxes. The Dunbar solicitors opened Sir Adrian's eyes to even more discouraging discoveries: two houses owned by the estate in England had been sold to meet death duties; most of the ?20,000 trust fund would have to go for the same cause. Only seven overgrown acres of the vast Scottish estate were still available for farming. Income and real-estate taxes would gobble up all but ?420 of the ?2,000 he would collect in rents from the rest of his holdings. With the mansion uninhabitable, the only shelter available to the new baronet...
...Adrian refused to be discouraged...