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 (1860–93)
• Edward Bagnall Poulton (1893–1933)
• Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter (1933–48)
• George Copley Varley (1948-80)
• David Spencer Smith (1980–95)
• 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.