The Mansion House Fund was a charitable organisation started by the Lord Mayor of London in 1899, soon after the onset of the South African War, to bring financial relief to the Uitlander Refugees who were made destitute as a result of the war. Its distributional headquarters was in Cape Town. Contributions in excess of £200 000 were raised in Britain and South Africa, with disbursement of

See also: South African War (Anglo-Boer War) Uitlander Refugees National Expenditure on Refugees Relief Statistics for East London Relief Register: East London

the funds left in the hands of a Central Committee in Cape Town, the Governor acting as chairperson. The money was thereupon distributed through local committees in the various towns. At East London almost 4000 people received aid at various times.

Dr Keith Tankard