Efforts by Jesus College students to remove a memorial to Tobias Rustat, who invested in the Royal African Company, were likened to trying to get rid of an unpopular relative .
Students at Jesus College are demanding Cambridge remove a plaque to Tobias Rustat after it emerged that he had held a leadership position in the slave-trading firm the Royal African Company.
Undergraduates at the college are demanding the removal of a plaque to Tobias Rustat, a courtier to King Charles II, after it emerged that he had held a leadership position in a slave-trading firm.
Jesus College has submitted an application to the Diocese of Ely to relocate an ornate memorial to Cambridge University s 17th century benefactor Tobias Rustat.
Tobias Rustat, who was a major investor in the Royal African Company and had been a servant to King Charles II, became one of Jesus College s largest benefactors before the 20th century.