Killed by his cat

DIED.- 9th. In consequence of an extraordinary accident, Dr. Hoare, master of Jesus college, Oxford, and prebendary of Westminster. As he was sitting at tea, somebody moved the table upon his favourite cat, and gave the animal such pain, that it flew directly at the doctor, and the wound by its claws occasioned a mortification, which put a period to his life. Dr. Hoare was upwards of ninety years of age. This gentleman attended the late earl Harcourt to the court of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, in 1761, and had the honour of marrying our gracious queen.