Career
After a short time at the shop in ‘The Lanes’ Cato opened a shop in Upper North Street, Brighton, at this time a well-known street of antique shops. ‘Lennox Antiques’, as the business was now known, resided here for approximately two years. Eight years later in 1997 they moved to Edenbridge in Kent, where he and Susan renamed the business to ‘Lennox Cato Antiques’.
These were classed by The Independent as being among the fifty best antique shops in the United Kingdom. In 2007 he was appointed Country Vice Chairman.
He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Antiques Roadshow as a furniture specialist in 2004 and has appeared on the programme regularly ever since. This was not Cato’s first foray into television
He has also appeared in Going for a Song with Michael Parkinson. In a televised interview with Judith Miller at the Edenbridge premises and featured on Independent Television’s Tales from the Country.
Over the nine years he ran it Cato raised over £40,000.
The event is still going strong and the winners now receive the Lennox Cato Cup.
