Following a disastrous turn serving dinner as a butler and “maid”, Ollie and Stan are working as street cleaners when they inadvertently stop a bank robber. The bank manager insists they are rewarded with the best education money can buy. They go to Oxford where Stan finds out he is really Lord Paddington – champion scholar and sportsman. A blow to the head restores his forgotten persona and soon Ollie is being ordered around and insulted as his personal valet.