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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sam Russell

Court to hear dispute over future of memorial to Cambridge college benefactor

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An ecclesiastical court is to hear a dispute over whether a memorial to a 17th Century benefactor who invested in slave-trading companies can be moved from the chapel of a Cambridge University college.

Tobias Rustat, who invested in the Royal African Company, became one of Jesus College’s largest benefactors before the 20th Century.

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