Nicola Jane Chapman, Baroness Chapman was a British peer and disability rights activist. Chapman was born in Leeds, with a congenital disability, Osteogenesis imperfecta. She was expected to survive only a few hours after her birth, but lived into her 40s, by which time she estimated she had suffered at least 600 bone fractures. She reached 2 feet 9 inches in height, and used an electric wheelchair. She was educated at home, and then at John Jamieson School in Leeds, a school for children with physical disabilities. She later moved to the mainstream Park Lane College of Higher Education and then studied mathematics and management at Trinity and All Saints College in Horsforth. She was a volunteer tutor for the Apex Trust, then worked at Leeds City Council and then became a teacher in adult education, before her disability forced her to give up work. She continued as a volunteer disability activist, campaigning for independent living and access to public buildings. She was chair of the Leeds Centre for Integrated Living and the Leeds United Disabled Organisation. 

August 3rd, 1961 in   /  Died:   Sep 3rd, 2009