Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman
Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman was a New Zealand doctor, medical superintendent and welfare worker. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 27 November 1896.
Chapman graduated from the University of Otago medical school in 1921. She later gained an MD in 1934 and the Dublin Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics. From 1936 to 1946 she was Medical Superintendent of St Helens Hospital in Wellington. In 1946 she was director of the CORSO relief team in Greece. She was appointed resident obstetrician at Dulwich Hospital in London in 1948.
