See Dick Whittington. The picture is the charming logo adopted by the Whittington Hospital on Highgate Hill.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Dick Whittington's cat
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Dick Whittington and his cat - Highgate
British History Online (1878) says that in about 1795 "the original stone, be...
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