Frederick William Hope

1797 - 1862

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

languages spoken, written or signed:  English
educated at:  University of Oxford
occupation:  entomologist

Frederick William Hope (3 January 1797 – 15 April 1862) was an English clergyman, naturalist, collector, and entomologist, who founded a professorship at the University of Oxford to which he gave his entire collections of insects in 1849 (now known as the Hope Collection or in expanded form the Hope Entomological Collections, with around 3.5 million specimens). He described numerous species and was a founder of the Entomological Society of London in 1833 along with John Obadiah Westwood. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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