title: Hope Professor of Zoology
text: # 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 Geraldine Wright. The position is associated with a professorial fellowship at Jesus College.
  
  List of holders
  
  * 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 (2006-2018)
  * Geraldine Wright (2021–present)
  