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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Catherine Lough

Cambridge college ‘let down by Church’ over Rustat judgment

PA Wire

Students and members of a Cambridge college which was refused permission to remove a memorial to a slave trade investor say they feel “let down” by the Church.

In March, the Diocese of Ely decided that a memorial to Tobias Rustat, a seventeenth century investor in the trade, would not be removed from the Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge, after an application from the college to move it to a permanent exhibition space elsewhere.

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