Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman

Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman (27 November 1896 – 1 September 1995) was a New Zealand medical doctor, medical superintendent and welfare worker.

Life Chapman was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 27 November 1896. She attended school at Woodford House in Havelock North and then Victoria University. She then worked at Gisborne Hospital followed by general practice in Wellington. She then continued on the Committee of Inquiry into Maternity Services in 1937. She became the honorary registrar of the newly formed Royal College of General Practitioners from 1953 to 1962.

Chapman retired to Bexhill-on-Sea where she died on 1 September 1995.