Harry Lee Parker (1894–1959) was an American and Irish neurologist who reported unique paroxysmal symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis,1 and wrote a book on clinical neurology popular enough to be reprinted 13 years after initial publication.2 Parker penned profiles of other physicians,3-5 but his biography has only been touched on briefly in obituaries,6,7 articles,1,8,9 and books.10-13 Following his advice that “a honeyed obituary is an insult to the dead (p. 596),”5 we will describe in detail the life of Dr.