Hope Professor of Zoology

The Hope Professor of Zoology (Entomology) is a professorship at Oxford University. The first Hope Professor was John Obadiah Westwood. The current holder is Charles Godfray. The position is associated with a professorial fellowship at Jesus College.

List of holders^[1]

• John Obadiah Westwood (1860–1893)
• Edward Bagnall Poulton (1893–1933)
• George Douglas Hale Carpenter (1933–1948)
• George Copley Varley (1948-1980)
• David Spencer Smith (1980–1995)
• Vacant
• Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray (2006- )

1. ↑ Smith, Audrey Z (1986). A History of the Hope Entomological Collections in the University Museum Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press.