Hampton Wildman Parker
Hampton Wildman Parker ( born July 5, 1897 in Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England; † September 2, 1968 ) was a British herpetologist.
Life and work
1923 Parker graduated from the University of Cambridge Bachelor of Arts. In the same year he joined the staff in the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles at the Natural History Museum, where he became the successor to the Curator Joan Beauchamp Procter. He then worked for a time as a successor of George Albert Boulenger in the zoological department. In 1935, he graduated from Selwyn College Master of Arts. During the Second World War he worked for the Admiralty. After 1945, he continued his work for the Natural History Museum and was involved in the repair of the resulting war damage. In 1947 he became head of the zoological department, which he held until 1957. In 1949 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the snakes of Somalia at the University of Leiden. 1957 Parker was honored with the Order of Merit Commander of the British Empire.
Hampton Wildman Parker wrote more than 200 scientific articles on the herpetofauna of numerous countries, including fossil species. His particular interest was the families of the Südfrösche and mouthed, about which he wrote a monograph in 1934. In addition, he conducted studies on lizards and snakes Somalia. After his retirement he published the works of Snakes of the World - Their Ways of Living and Means (1963) and Natural History of Snakes (1965).
One of the first descriptions of scientific Hampton Wildman Parker, among other Pseudophryne major, Flectonotus fitzgeraldi, Astylosternus occidentalis, Leptopelis Jordanian, Breviceps POWERi, Amietophrynus camerunensis and Skinkart Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi, which he named after the Irish entomologists Leslie Desmond Edward Foster Vesey - Fitzgerald.