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Sybil, the current Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
Sybil, the current Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

The Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office is the unofficial title of the official resident cat of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at 10 Downing Street. Sybil is a Cat living at 11 and 10 Downing Street. Named after Sybil Fawlty, she is the pet of Chancellor of the Exchequer, An official residence is the residence at which Heads of state, Heads of government, gubernatorial or other senior figures officially WikipediaManual of Style (spelling, articles should conform to one overall spelling style of English typically the one most linked to the article topic (if it is geographic The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom Only one cat was officially given the title,[1] and the other cats are given this title affectionately, usually by the British press. There has been a resident Treasury or Downing Street cat employed as mouser and pet since the reign of Henry VIII,[2] although official records released into the public domain on January 4, 2005 by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 only date back to June 3, 1929,[3][4] when AE Banham at the Treasury authorised the Office Keeper "to spend 1d a day from petty cash towards the maintenance of an efficient cat". HM Treasury, in full Her Majesty's Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing Downing Street is the street in London, England, which for over two hundred years has contained the official residences of two of the most senior British cabinet ministers Henry VIII (28 June 1491 &ndash 28 January 1547 was King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. See Freedom of information in the United Kingdom for a general discussion of Freedom of information legislation throughout the United Kingdom. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [5] In April 1932, his weekly allowance was upped to 1s 6d. The shilling is a unit of Currency used in current and former Commonwealth countries and was continued to be used in countries that left the commonwealth By the 21st century, the mouser was costing £100 per annum. The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency [6]

As the cats are "employed" as civil servants,[7] they do not belong to the Prime Minister in residence and it is rare for the Chief Mouser's "term of office" to coincide with that of the Prime Minister. The cat with the longest tenure at Downing Street is Wilberforce, who served under Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher. Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 &ndash 17 July 2005 often known as Ted Heath, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom James Harold Wilson Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 &ndash 24 May 1995 was one of the most prominent British politicians Leonard James Callaghan Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005 was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925 The current mouser, Sybil, began her tenure on September 11, 2007, and was the first mouser for ten years following the retirement of her predecessor, Humphrey in 1997. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Humphrey Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office ( c 1988 &ndash March 2006 was a Cat employed as a mouser at 10 Downing Street from Sybil is owned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, who currently lives in 10 Downing Street while the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, lives in the larger 11 Downing Street. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all Economic and Financial Alistair Maclean Darling (born 28 November 1953 is a British Politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer since 28 June 2007 WikipediaManual of Style (biographies#Academic titles --> James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951 is [8][9]

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List of cats

Name Began tenure Ended tenure Prime Minister(s) Refs
Treasury Bill 1924 Ramsay MacDonald [10]
Peter fl. 1929 1946 Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee [3]
Munich Mouser 1937–1940 1943 Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill [11][12]
Nelson 1940s Winston Churchill [12][13]
Peter II 1946 1948 Clement Attlee [3]
Peter 1948 1964 Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home [3]
Peta 1964 ca. 1978 Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath [3]
Wilberforce 1970 1988 Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher [14]
Humphrey 1989 1997 Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair [15]
Sybil 2007 Incumbent Gordon Brown [16][17]

References

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The Parliamentary Cats are a collection of stray cats living in the precinct of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. This is a list of Pets belonging to various US Presidents and their families while serving their term(s in office
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