Benjamin Theaker Parkin (21 April 1906 – 3 June 1969) was a British teacher and politician who served as the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Stroud and for Paddington North.

He became a teacher, and by the time of the outbreak of the Second World War was on the staff of his old college; he left to serve in the Royal Air Force as Flight-Lieutenant.

He was on the left wing of the party and was part of a delegation of Labour MPs who met Soviet premier Joseph Stalin in 1947; when he voted against the Ireland Bill, he was warned by the Chief Whip about his conduct.

[2] He was chosen to replace Bill Field, who had resigned as the MP for Paddington North after a conviction for importuning.

In 1956, he made the observation that, when telling the Chinese that he represented Paddington, they had responded by saying "That is where the Church owns the brothels, isn't it?