John Palmer Parker (29 November 1902 — 9 August 1984) was an English first-class cricketer.
Parker was lauded for his performance during the match, with Wisden remarking that he "deserves a place in cricket history as perhaps the only inexperienced and unknown batsman to get the better of Tich Freeman at his best".
[3] He featured regularly for Hampshire in 1927, making twenty appearances and scoring exactly 500 runs and an average of exactly 20.
[7] Despite initially starting out at club level as an all-rounder, Parker was not utilised as such by Hampshire in first-class cricket.
[10] He was made an acting flight lieutenant in March 1942,[11] and was given the war substantive rank in October of the same year.