Wilfrid Chapman

Brigadier Wilfrid Chapman FIE (16 May 1891 – 6 May 1955) was an engineer, soldier and botanist after whom "Eucalyptus chapmaniana" was named.
Early years.
Born 16 May 1891 at Wandsworth, London, son of Frederick Chapman, a geologist's assistant, and his wife Helen Mary, née Dancer. In 1902 the family came to Australia where Frederick took up his appointment as paleontologist at the National Museum, Melbourne, and served as the first Australian Commonwealth Palaeontologist 1927–1935.