Charles Samuel Pollock Parish (1822–1897) was an Anglo-Indian clergyman and botanist who served as chaplain to the forces of the Honourable East India Company in Burma.

[a] With his wife Eleanor he collected and painted plants, chiefly orchids, identifying and naming a number of species new to science.

[1] In 1852 Parish was appointed as assistant chaplain to the Honourable East India Company in the province of Tenasserim,[c] Burma, based at Moulmein,[d] travelling there via Calcutta and Rangoon.

In 1854 he married Eleanor Isabella Sarah Johnson, and subsequently the couple had seven children, all born in Moulmein: four daughters, one of whom died after a year, and three sons.

[1] He was involved in the naming of a number of species,[h][i] many in conjunction with Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach[11] who wrote, in an 1874 paper titled "Enumeration of the Orchids Collected by the Rev.

When he came home in 1871 he brought with him a beautiful collection of careful water-colour drawings, with analytical sketches, which have proved exceedingly trustworthy.

[j][8][12] Parish contributed a catalogue of Orchids to Francis Mason's 1849 work "The natural productions of Burmah: or, notes on the fauna, flora, and minerals of the Tenasserim provinces and the Burman empire".

[5] The British Library holds two manuscripts by Parish, A Little Known Volcano, about Barren Island, which he visited in October 1861, and Burmah and the Burmese, which he signed and dated May 1879.