| Office: | Attorney General of Massachusetts |
| Term Start: | 1902 |
| Term End: | 1906 |
| Predecessor: | Hosea M. Knowlton |
| Successor: | Dana Malone |
| Birth Date: | 2 March 1856 |
| Birth Place: | Charlestown, Massachusetts, US |
| Death Place: | Lancaster, Massachusetts, US |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard College |
| Party: | Republican |
| Spouse: | Mary Carney Vose |
| Children: | George Alanson Parker Katherine Vose Parker Edith Parker Ross Haven Parker |
| Relations: | Cornelius Conway Felton (uncle) Samuel Morse Felton, Sr. (uncle) John B. Felton (uncle) Samuel Morse Felton, Jr. (cousin) |
Herbert Parker (March 2, 1856 – February 11, 1939), of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was a Massachusetts politician.
Parker was born in Charlestown (now part of Boston), Suffolk County, Massachusetts on March 2, 1856.[1] He was a son of George A. Parker and Harriet Newell (Felton) Parker (1822–1914). His brother, Harold Parker, was one of the first highway commissioners in Massachusetts and planned many of the highways in the state.[2]
His maternal grandparents were Anna (Morse) Felton and Cornelius Conway Felton Sr. Among his maternal family were uncles, Cornelius Conway Felton (the President of Harvard from 1860 to 1862), Samuel Morse Felton, Sr., John B. Felton,[3] and his cousin was Samuel Morse Felton, Jr.[4]
He graduated from Harvard College in 1878.[5]
Parker was a Republican. He was a lawyer and served as Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1902 to 1906. He was a Unitarian.[6]
Parker was married to Mary Carney Vose, a daughter of Caroline Cushing (Forbes) Vose and Lt. Josiah Hayden Vose Jr., who was killed at the Battle of Port Hudson in the U.S. Civil War. Together, they were the parents of:
Parker died on February 11, 1939, at his home in Lancaster, Massachusetts.[9]