Possible Clues:

• Climber, of a sort
• Self-important one
• Person with social pretensions
• 'He who meanly admires mean things,' per Thackeray
• Person who thinks himself socially superior
• Kitsch deplorer
• Person who considers himself socially superior
• Stuck up one
• He is servile from the start to aristocrat
• One for whom nothing's good enough