By — Lorna Baldwin Lorna Baldwin Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/rescue-kitten-moves-winston-churchills-old-home Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rescue kitten moves into Winston Churchill’s old home World Mar 10, 2014 2:54 PM EDT Winston Churchill’s old estate has a new resident: an orange and white colored rescue cat named Jock VI. The cat is an unusual legacy of Churchill. The late British leader requested that there always be an orange cat with white chest fur, white paws and named Jock living at Chartwell, his estate in Kent, England. The name comes from one of his secretaries, Sir John “Jock” Colville, who gave the wartime leader a kitten for his 88th birthday. The National Trust, which was gifted the property in 1966, has always honored the request. The Churchill family left Chartwell to the National Trust in 1966. Photo by Flickr user R@PP We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now By — Lorna Baldwin Lorna Baldwin Lorna Baldwin is an Emmy and Peabody award winning producer at the PBS NewsHour. In her two decades at the NewsHour, Baldwin has crisscrossed the US reporting on issues ranging from the water crisis in Flint, Michigan to tsunami preparedness in the Pacific Northwest to the politics of poverty on the campaign trail in North Carolina. Farther afield, Baldwin reported on the problem of sea turtle nest poaching in Costa Rica, the distinctive architecture of Rotterdam, the Netherlands and world renowned landscape artist, Piet Oudolf. @lornabaldwin
Winston Churchill’s old estate has a new resident: an orange and white colored rescue cat named Jock VI. The cat is an unusual legacy of Churchill. The late British leader requested that there always be an orange cat with white chest fur, white paws and named Jock living at Chartwell, his estate in Kent, England. The name comes from one of his secretaries, Sir John “Jock” Colville, who gave the wartime leader a kitten for his 88th birthday. The National Trust, which was gifted the property in 1966, has always honored the request. The Churchill family left Chartwell to the National Trust in 1966. Photo by Flickr user R@PP We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now