Frederic Lincoln Chapin (July 13, 1929 – September 8, 1989) was a United States diplomat. He was the ambassador to Ethiopia and Guatemala.
Early life
Chapin was born in New York City on July 13, 1929. He was the son of Mary Paul (née Noyes) Chapin (1902–1984) and Selden Chapin (1899–1963), who served as the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands, Peru and Iran, who married in 1927. His sister was Helen Chapin (1928–2011), who married Ronald Irwin Metz (1921–2002) in 1951.
His maternal grandparents were Helen (née Humpstone) Noyes and Winchester Noyes, the president of J. H. Winchester & Company, an international shipping brokerage firm. His cousin Hope Cook (b. 1940), who was a ward of his parents following the death of her parents, married King Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923–1982) in 1961 and became the Queen of Kingdom of Sikkim until their divorce in 1980. She later married Mike Wallace. His paternal grandparents were Frederic Lincoln Chapin (1863–1913) and Grace Card (née Selden) Chapin (1864–1941).
Chapin attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and graduated from Harvard College, where he received a bachelor's degree in history, in 1950.
