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List of historical cats
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Unnamed
- Sir Isaac Newton's cat, whose incessant desire to be let in or out allegedly drove him to devise the catflap.
- A cat who wandered on stage during the premiere of Rossini's The Barber of Seville, sending the audience into gales of laughter
Named
- Cc the cat, the first cloned pet.
- Dinah , the actual cat of Alice Liddell.
- Elsa, the lioness described in Born Free by Joy Adamson.
- Hodge, the cat belonging to Dr Samuel Johnson.
- Humphrey, a cat who took up residence at Downing Street in the early 1990s (named for the character of Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes, Minister).
- India "Willie" Bush, US President George W. Bush's cat, named for Ruben Sierra "El Indio".
- Jellylorum was T. S. Eliot's own cat, immortalized in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats the basis for Cats.
- Khouli-Khan, the cat of Thomas Anson is memorialized by the neoclassical "Cat's Monument" in the park at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, unless the cat in question is the first cat to circumnavigate the globe in the company of Admiral George Anson on H.M.S. Centurion
- Muezza, the cat of Mohammed; the Prophet cut off his sleeve rather than disturb the cat, who was sleeping on it.
- Old Foss, the cat belonging to Edward Lear.
- Pangur Ban , the cat who inspired an otherwise unknown 8th (or 9th) century Irish monk to write a poem cataloguing their similarities.
- Selima was Horace Walpole's cat, immortalized in Thomas Gray's Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes.
- Socks, stray cat adopted by the family of President Bill Clinton, named by his daughter Chelsea.
- Trim, beloved ship's cat of explorer Matthew Flinders, said to have been the first cat to circumnavigate the world.
- Henrietta , the now-deceased cat of New York Times foreign correspondent Christopher S. Wren , made famous by the book The Cat Who Covered the World (ISBN 0-684-87100-9 in one printing).
- American painter Benjamin West's cat Grimalkin.
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