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South African Rhodes scholar behind Oriel College’s removal of contentious Duke of Beaufort painting
The painting of Henry Somerset, the 3rd Duke of Beaufort, was recently removed from Oxford’s Oriel College and sent on loan to Badminton House, the ancestral home where the 12th Duke currently ...
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Rhodes scholar urged Oriel College to remove portrait of 18th century Duke Henry Somerset as he was 'personally troubled' by the 'racist and dehumanising' portrait
Dr Alexander von Klemperer was a PhD student at Oriel College in 2018 when he wrote a paper saying he was 'personally troubled' about the painting of Henry Somerset, the 3rd Duke of Beaufort.