Sydney William Britton (February 24, 1892 - 19??) was a British doctor. Born in England, Britton attended McGill University in Quebec from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1922 and an M.D. in 1924. He soon embarked on his medical career accepting positions at Harvard, McGill, Johnson Hopkins, and finally as a Professor of Physiology at the University of Virginia. He was awarded a Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1937. Britton married Louise Esther Weibel in 1924 and the couple had four children: two sons and two daughters. Having taught at the University of Virginia for twenty-four years years, Dr. and Mrs. Britton relocated to Nigeria, where Dr. Britton served as a Fulbright professor in the University of West Africa. Upon retiring and returning to the U.S., the couple devoted months of research and preparation towards a historical cartograph or pictorial map of the campus of the University of Virginia, printed in 1960. Afterwards, they produced a similar map of the campus of the University of North Carolina, published in 1962, which like the University of Virginia map was printed in a small run and marketed to alumni through alumni publications.
