Baden Powell

 - apparently went to school here, although the building is now flats.   Reading the plaque I thought I needed to know more about the Siege of Mafeking. This is what is says in Wikipedia :-

The Siege of Mafeking was the most famous British action in the Second Boer War. It took place at the town of Mahikeng (called Mafeking by the British) in South Africa over a period of 217 days, from October 1899 to May 1900, and turned Robert Baden-Powell, who went on to found the Scouting Movement, into a national hero. 


Now we know.