removed from the chapel, and a faculty application to permit this was made to the Diocese of Ely in December 2020. The removal of the monument from the west wall of the college chapel was opposed by Rustat’s descendants and some alumni. An objection by 65 alumni, calling themselves the Rustat memorial group, stated that the character of the chapel would be altered, that the college was trying to alter that character, and that its arguments opposed the whole idea of heritage. The objectors stated that Rustat's involvement with the slave trade was marginal in his life and not unusual in the culture of his time. Evidence had been filed with the University of Cambridge Advisory Group on Legacies of Enslavement which attempted to exonerate Rustat from any significant links to the 17th-century slave trade, as his RAC holdings constituted only 1.7 per cent of his total worth measured by his lifetime giving and his estate at death. English Heritage opposed the proposed relocation while the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby criticised the delay in removing what he described as "a memorial to slavery" on 8 February 2022. The faculty application to move the Rustat memorial was considered at a three-day consistory court hearing in February 2022. David Hodge QC, Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Ely, ruled that removing the memorial would case significant harm to the chapel as a building of special historical and architectural interest. His judgement concluded that Jesus College had not presented a clear and compelling case for removal that outweighed this harm. After the ruling the Archbishop of Canterbury stood by his comments and stated "Memorials to slave-traders do not belong in places of worship." Jesus College spent £120,000 attempting to remove the Rustat memorial from its chapel, The college has decided against an appeal. Costs were not awarded to the opponents. Rustat scholars Nathaniel Spinckes (1653–1727), nonjuring clergyman David Hartley (1705 –1757), philosopher Henry Venn (1725–1797), clergyman Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet Herbert White (1830–1863), cricketer and clergyman Martin Charlesworth (1895–1950), classicist Jack Longland (1905–1993), educator, climber and broadcaster. See also Okukor, a Benin bronze at Jesus College until 2021 References 1694 deaths Year of birth uncertain 17th-century philanthropists English courtiers English philanthropists English slave traders Jesus College, Cambridge People associated with the University of Cambridge People from Barrow upon Soar Court of Charles II of England