Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865–1950) was a Canadian geologist and mining engineer.
He was a tireless mineral collector and was known for walking straight into mining offices to request specimens.
Consequently, he created large collections of mineral specimens of a quality still admired to this day.
The mineral specimens he amassed were instrumental in creating the mineral collections of the Smithsonian in Washington DC, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Alberta, and the museum particularly dear to his heart, the Redpath Museum at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The type material of this mineral is stored at the Redpath Museum and is part of a separate collection that also bears his name.