Johnson described Hodge as 'a very fine cat indeed'. All the information you might want on Hodge is available at Moggies
The poet, Percival Stockdale wrote An Elegy on the Death of Dr Johnson's Favourite Cat:
Who, by his master when caressed
Warmly his gratitude expressed;
And never failed his thanks to purr
Whene'er he stroked his sable fur.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hodge, Johnson's cat
Hodge is sitting on a leather-bound book ("A Dictionary of the English Langua...
One of the most famous of the sketches in the television comedy series 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'. Written by Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and performed by Cleese and Michael Palin. Initiall...
Locally led organisations aimed at teaching young people about kindness to animals. They also worked to prevent cruelty to animals. Founded by Catherine Smithies as a furtherance of the temperance ...
The world’s first body to challenge the use of animals in research, founded by Frances Power Cobbe, in Victoria Street SW1 as the Victoria Street Society. 1898 the group split over whether it shoul...
The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North West Europe including the Normandy D-Day landings.
Formed as a merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry. It carries out research, publishes journals, books and da...
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