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Cats Of London: Trim

October 29, 2025

Outside Euston Station you can find a statue of Captain Matthew Flinders and his cat Trim. Captain Flinders, the navigator and cartographer, is credited as leading the first voyage around Australia, establishing it as one land mass and even giving it the name; Australia in the early 1800s. Born in 1799 aboard HMS Reliance during a voyage … More Cats Of London: Trim

Cats Of London: Kaspar

October 15, 2025

The legend of Kaspar began with an unfortunate event in 1898. A guest at the Savoy, Woolf Joel, hosted a dinner for what turned out to be thirteen people. He laughed off the old superstition that a party of 13 was bad luck, that the first to rise would be the first to die, but … More Cats Of London: Kaspar

A bronze statue of Hodge the cat was unveiled in 1997 outside the London house he shared with his owner, Samuel Johnson. Sculpted by Jon Bickley, the statue shows Hodge sitting next to empty oyster shells on a copy of Johnson's dictionary. An inscription on the statue reads, "a very fine cat indeed." Visitors often place coins in the oyster shells for good luck, and a pink ribbon is occasionally tied to the statue for special occasions. The sculptor, who grew up near Johnson's birthplace, based the statue on his own cat and designed it to be "shoulder height" so that people could easily put their arm around it.

Cats Of London: Hodge

September 30, 2025

They say a dog is a man’s best friend, but with Dr Samuel Johnson is was definitely a cat. Hodge to be specific. Hodge, Samuel Johnson ‘s famous black cat, was immortalised in James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). ‘I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself … More Cats Of London: Hodge