Society of Antiquaries in turmoil after vote to back sex abuser
Educational charity’s leaders dismayed after bid to expel Hubert Chesshyre is defeated
One 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, following a vote, the Society of Antiquaries, which describes itself as “Britain’s oldest learned society concerned with the study and understanding of the material past”, is to allow Hubert Chesshyre to remain a fellow.