[Surgeon General] Thomas Heazle Parke

Life
1857-1893; b. Clogher House, Drumsa, Co. Leitrim; ed. RCSI; service in Egypt, 1882 and 1885; involved in Karthoum expedition to rescue Gen. Gordon; later organised expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, governor of Equatorial Africa, for Stanley; unpaid volunteer accompanying Stanley’s expedition, 1887; commanded a company and acted as medical officer; travelled 1,000 miles up the Congo; BMA and Royal Geog. Soc. gold medals; staff of Royal Victoria Hospital; bur. Leitrim; commorated by a statue on the lawn of Leinster House, Dublin. DNB DIB

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Criticism
J. B. Lyons, Surgeon-Major Parke’s African Journey 1877-89 (Dublin: Lilliput 1994), 281pp.

Review by Martin Lynn in Linenhall Review (Autumn 1994), p.34.

Review by John Spurling in Times Literary Supplement, 9. Sept. 1994).

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Notes
The statue of Parke on Leinster Garden, on front of Natural History Museum, is erroneously calls a statue of Livingstone Oliver St John Gogarty in Not This Time of Year at All.

Kith & Kin? (1): Mungo Park, the subject of Stephen Gwynn’s Mungo Park and the Quest for the Niger (London: J Lane 1934); see also Daniel Haughton.

Kith & Kin? (2): Brian Inglis (Downstart, Chatto & Windus 1990), refers to members of the Park family, inc. his own cousin Cecil Mungo Park, a cousin of the author's mother, in p.34. &c. A Mungo Park and wife gave their Irish collection into the keeping of the Princess Grace Irish Library at the time of their divorce [in the 1980s].

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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)