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Sorry, I meant to add the actual location after.
Baden Powell of course wasn't a slave owner, but a hero of Empire, who helped defeat ungrateful natives (whose "stupid inertness" was "duller than that of an ox") in the Gold Coast and Southern Rhodesia, and skilfully denied black Africans their rations to enable British soldiers to keep up the siege of Mafeking.
What better name could a school in Hackney bear?
Blah, blah, product of his time, erasing history etc. Burn it down, I say.