> At a cost of about £100 a year (paid for from the Cabinet Office's budget), most of which went towards food, Humphrey was said to be of considerably better value than the Cabinet's professional pest controller, who charged £4,000 a year and is reported to have never caught a mouse.[3]

I like how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Of... has a timeline and highlights if the Chief Mouser was under a Conservative or Labour government.

Of course, as a civil servant, the Chief Mouser is expected to implement government policy impartially.

Aww :)

The "rival" cat at the Foreign & Commonwealth house down the street also has his own wiki lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_(cat)

A know a person at the FCDO who had to routinely write letters in correspondance to those who'd sought Palmerston's advice on various matters. A hilarious internship.

You should check the See Also section on the following article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Of...

> Humphrey was found as a stray by a Cabinet Office civil servant and named in honour of Humphrey Appleby, the archetypal civil servant of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

Love it. Thatcher was famously a big fan of "Yes Minister"

Reassuring to see none of them were intentionally killed and only Peter II passed due to an accident.

Where I live its exceedingly rare to have an outdoor cat that lives past 10. And they are not even related to unpopular public figures...