Anger at antiquaries charity after sex abuser wins members’ vote

Heraldry expert’s backers ‘did not represent majority at 18th-century society’

A vote allowing a sex abuser to remain a fellow at a prestigious educational society has provoked a fierce internal backlash and demands for the organisation’s reform.

Scores of fellows at the Society of Antiquaries of London, a charity that promotes the study of the past, are up in arms about the vote, which has allowed Hubert Chesshyre to continue as a fellow.

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