Val Chapman

{{Short description|New Zealand botanist, university professor, conservationist (1910–1980)}}

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{{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Val Chapman

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|OBE|size=100%}}

| image = Val Chapman.jpg

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| caption = Chapman in 1962

| birth_name = Valentine Jackson Chapman

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|02|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Alcester, Warwickshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|12|05|1910|02|14|df=y}}

| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand

| spouse = {{marriage|Phyllis Claire Parks|1938}}

| children = 3

| order = Auckland City Councillor

| term_start = 1954

| term_end = 1956

| term_start1 = 1960

| term_end1 = 1961

| module = {{Infobox scientist | embed = yes

| fields = Botany

| workplaces = {{ubl|Victoria University of Manchester|University of Auckland}}

| alma_mater = University of Cambridge

| thesis_title = The operation of tides in controlling salt marsh vegetation

| thesis_url = https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/16u99e0/44CAM_ALMA21581028960003606

| thesis_year = 1935

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| author_abbrev_bot = V.J.Chapm.

}}

}}

Valentine Jackson Chapman {{post-nominals|country=NZL|OBE|size=85%}} (14 February 1910 – 5 December 1980) was a New Zealand botanist, university professor, and conservationist.