Anne Maria Chapman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAnne Maria Chapman
missionary
Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1791
Place of Birth: Henley-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 12-Dec-1855
Profession: missionary, botanical collector
Nationality: New Zealand
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Anne Maria Chapman
- Anne Maria Chapman (13 January 1791 – 12 December 1855) was an English Anglican missionary in New Zealand.
- She was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England on 13 January 1791.Chapman and her husband gave hospitality to early European explorers passing through on the route between Tauranga and the centre of the North Island.
- The most notable explorers and botanists who were assisted were John Carne Bidwell, Ernst Dieffenbach, and William Colenso.In the second volume of J.D.
- Hooker's Flora Novae-Zelandiae (Flowerless Plants, 1855) there are records of the following seaweeds from "Maketu, Chapman": Ectocarpus, Polysiphonia, Champia, Nitophyllum, Plocamium, Gigartina, Ceramium, and Callithamnion.
- Anne Chapman may have played a part in collecting these.
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