Thomas Heazle Parke (1857–1893) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London
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W. W. Webb
revised by Roy Bridges
Parke, Thomas Heazle (1857–1893), army medical officer and explorer in Africa, was the second son of William Parke JP, of Clogher House, Drumsna, co. Roscommon, and Henrietta, daughter of Henry Holmes of Newport House, Isle of Wight. The family, said to be of Kentish origin, settled in ...