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According to Bernard Ingham , the former Press Secretary to Margaret Thatcher, Wilberforce was a normal cat for whom Thatcher once bought "a tin of sardines in a Moscow supermarket".

Wilberforce the cat also inspired Wilberforce the band to name themselves after him.

He retired on 3rd April 1987, and was succeeded by Humphrey who was born the year Wilberforce died, in 1988.