Shrewsbury chap not originally a fawner (9)

I believe the answer is:

sycophant

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'a fawner' is the definition.
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'shrewsbury chap not originally' is the wordplay.
'shrewsbury' becomes 'sy' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'originally' indicates anagramming the letters.
'chap'+'not'='chapnot'
'chapnot' anagrammed gives 'cophant'.
'sy'+'cophant'='SYCOPHANT'

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(Other definitions for sycophant that I've seen before include "Servile flatterer" , "receiving ultimate in flattery from one such?" , "Crawler, toady" , "yes-man" , "obsequious one" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.

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