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Frederick William Hope

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English entomologist (1797-1862)

ScientistsLived 1797 to 1862 · aged 65
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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.

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Frederick William Hope circa 1861, painting by L.C. Dickinson (1819-1908)Frederick William Hope circa 1861, painting by L.C. Dickinson (1819-1908)Dorcus hopei is a stag beetle named after F.W. HopeDorcus hopei is a stag beetle named after F.W. Hope

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Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Linnean Society of London

Scientists born in the 1790s 6

Friedrich August von Alberti41.9Johan Coenraad van Hasselt41.8Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld42.0George Francis Lyon41.5John Forbes Royle42.1Mutius von Tommasini41.5

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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.

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deceased
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Lived 1797 to 1862 · aged 65
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