John Obadiah Westwood
1805–93
Entomologist and palaeographer. Founding member of the Entomological Society of London, 1833; honorary president, 1883. Hope Professor of zoology, Oxford University, 1861–93. Entomological referee for Gardeners’ Chronicle. Royal Society of London Royal Medallist, 1855.
Sources
ODNB
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1 (1833–6): xxxiv
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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