Philip Pearsall Carpenter (4 November 1819 – 24 May 1877) was an English minister who emigrated to Canada, where his field work as a malacologist or conchologist is still well regarded today.

[1] A man of many talents, he wrote, published, taught, and was a volunteer explaining the growing study of shells in North America.

[6] Carpenter was a Presbyterian minister in Warrington between 1846 and 1862 and he studied the collection of shells in the local museum between 1860 and 1865, before moving to Canada.

Carpenter died 24 May 1877 in the Saint Antoine Ward of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, of typhoid complicated by rheumatism.

She is mentioned in brother William's insert in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography by Charles Coulton Gillispie.