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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: New Oxford University 'woke' row as painting depicting a black servant is taken down from college wall

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: The portrait shows the 5th Duke of Beaufort as a substantial figure in powdered wig and ermine robes - with a smaller figure in the background.

In a history spanning very nearly 700 years, it has educated many lively and sometimes brilliant minds – including those of Elizabethan adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh and the late, Left-wing historian AJP Taylor. In a history spanning very nearly 700 years, Oriel College (pictured) has educated many lively and sometimes brilliant minds – including those of Elizabethan adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh and the late, Left-wing historian AJP Taylor That's why it had to be banished – in case it offended a student,' alleges the critic, adding derisively: 'it's a fine way to treat one of Oriel's great benefactors, the first to endow scholarships for poor scholars since the Middle Ages'.

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