Hector Mark Wilks MBE (1919,[1] - 1992[2]) was an English botanist and conservationist.
A retired chartered surveyor,[1] he was chairman of the Kent Trust for Nature Conservation.
[3] He was also a councillor on the Whitstable Urban District Council.
[2] He is perhaps best known for rediscovering the monkey orchid (Orchis simia) in Kent at a site near Faversham and subsequently introducing the species to Park Gate Down near Elham.
[4] The site near Faversham remains one of only two native sites for the monkey orchid in the British Isles and has remained closed to the public since its discovery.