The investigation, carried out by the Legacies of Enslavement Advisory Group, found that the university and its colleges benefited from companies that participated in the trade.
Sonita Alleyne, Jesus College s master, said Rustat s involvement in the slave trade had been very clearly proven and those supporting the plaque s removal would be on the right side of history .
Jesus College had claimed that the memorial to Tobias Rustat was an odious memento of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and was incompatible with the chapel as an inclusive community .
Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Ely, David Hodge QC, ruled against Jesus College, saying the memorial should remain in place as a reminder of the imperfection of humans .
A plaque memorialising 17th-century royal courtier Tobias Rustat, who invested in the Royal African Company, is located inside a Cambridge University college chapel.