F R Chapman Collection

F R Chapman Collection

Sir Frederick Chapman (1849-1936) was a noted jurist and a collector. He was born in New Zealand but educated in Australia and Britain. On returning to New Zealand he resided in Dunedin and much of his collection was made personally from around there. He donated material during his life to the Otago Museum and his collection went there after his death. Chapman has an entry in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Unusually for a collector he authored a number of articles on aspects of Maori culture, published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society and the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.