23-11-2019 13:45 via theguardian.com

Society of Antiquaries in turmoil after vote to back sex abuser

Educational charity’s leaders dismayed after bid to expel Hubert Chesshyre is defeatedOne of the country’s most venerable educational charities faces a backlash after it declined to sever its links with a sex abuser, a decision that has bewildered his victim.It has emerged that a majority of fellows at the Society of Antiquaries, which describes itself as “Britain’s oldest learned society concerned with the study and understanding of the material past”, recently vot
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