Thomas Heazle Parke FRSGS (1857–1893) was an Irish physician, British Army officer and author who was known for his work as a doctor on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.

[2][3] Parke joined the British Army Medical Services in February 1881 as a surgeon, first serving in Egypt during the final stages of the ʻUrabi revolt in 1882.

[2][3] As a senior medical officer at a field hospital near Cairo, Parke was responsible for treating battle casualties as well as the deadly cholera epidemic that afflicted 20% of British troops stationed there.

[3] He arrived in Egypt once again in 1884 as a part of the Nile Expedition sent in relief of General Charles Gordon, who was besieged in Khartoum by Mahdists in neighbouring Sudan.

[5] The expedition would be led by Henry Morton Stanley, and would journey through the African wilderness in relief of Emin Pasha, an Egyptian administrator who had been cut off by Mahdist forces following the Siege of Khartoum.

On the granite pedestal is a bronze plaque depicting the incident on 13 August 1887 when Parke sucked the poison from an arrow wound in the chest of Capt.