Thomas Heazle Parke

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Henry M Stanley with the officers of the Advance Column, Cairo, 1890. From the left : Dr. Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert H. Nelson, Henry M. Stanley, William Stairs, and Arthur J. M. Jephson

Surgeon-General Thomas Heazle Parke (1857 -- 1893) was an Irish doctor, explorer, soldier and naturalist.

Parke fought to Khartoum in relief of General Gordon in 1885 and campaigned with Henry Morton Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.

A bronze statue of Parke stands on Merrion Street in Dublin, outside the Natural History Museum. On the granite pedestal is a bronze plaque depicting the incident on August 13, 1887 when Parke sucked the poison from an arrow wound in the chest of Capt. William G. Stairs to save his life.

[edit] References

• Parke, T.H. Report from Darkest Africa (1887-1889)

• Parke, T.H. My personal experiences in equatorial Africa as medical officer of the Emin Pasha relief expedition

• Lyons, J. B. Surgeon Major Parke's African journey 1887-89. The Lilliput Press, Dublin. 1994.

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