In a shabby New York City side street in the mid-1880s young Cedric Errol lives with his
mother in genteel poverty after the death of his father Captain Cedric Errol. One day they
are visited by an English lawyer with a message from Cedric's grandfather the Earl of
Dorincourt an unruly millionaire who despises the United States. With the deaths of his
father's elder brothers Cedric has now inherited the title Lord Fauntleroy and is the heir to
the earldom and a vast estate. Cedric's grandfather takes him to live in England and be
educated as an English aristocrat.
