Hampton Wildman Parker
Hampton Wildman Parker CBE (5 July 1897 – 2 September 1968) was an English zoologist. Parker was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1947 to 1957. He wrote several works on snakes and frogs. Parker discovered a new species of lizard on the Seychelles, which he described and named Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi ) after entomologist Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald. Books by H.W. Parker
1934. A Monograph of the Frogs of the Family Microhylidae. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). 1963. Snakes. London: Hale. 1965. Natural History of Snakes. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). 1977. Snakes, a Natural History. University of Queensland Press. Eponyms
Parker is honored in the specific names of the following reptiles: Cercosaura parkeri, Chamaelycus parkeri, Emoia parkeri, Myriopholis parkeri, Phelsuma parkeri, Prasinohaema parkeri, Sphaerodactylus parkeri,  Tropidophis parkeri, and Zonurus parkeri (a synonym of Cordylus tropidosternum). References

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20th-century British botanists
Employees of the Natural History Museum, London
1897 births
1968 deaths