Frederick Parkes Weber

Frederick Parkes Weber (8 May 1863 – 2 June 1962) was an English dermatologist and author who practiced medicine in London.

He subsequently studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and abroad at Vienna and Paris.

[1] Weber contributed over 1200 medical articles and wrote 23 books over a period of 50 years.

[2] Together with his father, Weber was an avid coin collector; their numismatic collection being donated to several places, such as the Boston Medical Library, the British Museum, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge.

He was a long-standing member of the Royal Numismatic Society, which to this day awards the Parkes Weber Prize.