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ARCHAEOLOGIST

John O. Westwood

1805 - 1893

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John Obadiah Westwood (22 December 1805 – 2 January 1893) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John O. Westwood has received more than 28,442 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John O. Westwood is the 102nd most popular archaeologist (down from 75th in 2019), the 3,625th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,119th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Archaeologist.

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  • 18

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  • 4.73

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  • 2.41

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, John O. Westwood ranks 102 out of 104. Before him are James Prinsep, James Mellaart, Lewis Binford, Michael D. Coe, Carl Blegen, and Ekrem Akurgal. After him are Robert John Braidwood, Robert T. Bakker, Johann Andreas Wagner, Charles W. Gilmore, Anne Stine Ingstad, and José Leite de Vasconcelos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, John O. Westwood ranks 63. Before him are Robert Anderson, Gabriel Bibron, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Tomás Villalba, José Ballivián, and Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg. After him are William Harrison Ainsworth, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, James Wilson, Samuel Palmer, Michael Sars, and Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz. Among people deceased in 1893, John O. Westwood ranks 65. Before him are Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, Lucy Stone, Louis Ruchonnet, and Duleep Singh. After him are Constantin von Wurzbach, Benjamin Butler, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, James G. Blaine, Edwin Booth, and Richard Spruce.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John O. Westwood ranks 3,625 out of 7,765. Before him are Callum Keith Rennie (1960), Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), John Gerard (1545), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812), and Joe Cole (1981). After him are James Thomson (1700), Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), Nigella Lawson (1960), Bernard Sumner (1956), Douglas Hartree (1897), and Malcolm Campbell (1885).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, John O. Westwood ranks 21. Before him are Charles Dawson (1864), John Marshall (1876), Dorothea Bate (1878), Dorothy Garrod (1892), James Prinsep (1799), and James Mellaart (1925). After him are James Quibell (1867), John M. Allegro (1923), Meave Leakey (1942), Colin Groves (1942), Ian Hodder (1948), and Mortimer Wheeler (1890).

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