John Obadiah Westwood was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents. He published several illustrated works on insects and antiquities. He was among the first entomologists with an academic position at Oxford University. He was a natural theologian, staunchly anti-Darwinian, and sometimes adopted a quinarian viewpoint. Although he never travelled widely, he described species from around the world on the basis of specimens, especially of the larger, curious, and colourful species, obtained by naturalists and collectors in England.
Westwood, c. 1850
Westwood holding a Goliath beetle
John Obadiah Westwood by Ernest Edwards 1864
Westwood in later life
Frederick William Hope 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. He described numerous species and was a founder of the Entomological Society of London in 1833 along with John Obadiah Westwood.
Frederick William Hope circa 1861, painting by L.C. Dickinson (1819–1908)
Dorcus hopei is a stag beetle named after F.W. Hope
Image: FW Hope