RICHARD

See also:

• CHANDLER, HENRY WILLIAM (1828-1889)
• RICHARD CHANDLER (1738-1810)
• CHANDLER, SAMUEL (1693-1766)
• CHANDLER, ZACHARIAH (1813-1879)

CHANDLER (1738-1810)  , British antiquary, was born in 1738 at Elson in Hampshire, and educated at Winchester and at Queen's and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford . His first work consisted of fragments from the minor Greek poets, with notes (Elegiaca Graeca, 1759); and in 1763 he published a fine edition of the Arundelian marbles, Marmora Oxoniensia, with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for supplying thelacunae . He was sent by the Dilettanti Society with Nicholas Revett, an architect, and Pars, a painter, to explore the antiquities of Ionia and Greece (1763—1766); and the result of their work was the two magnificent folios of Ionian antiquities published in 1769 . He subsequently held several church preferments, including the rectory of Tylehurst, in Berkshire, where he died on the 9th of February 181o . Other works by Chandler were Inscriptiones Antiquae pleraeque nondum editae (Oxford, 1774); Travels in Asia Minor (1775); Travels in Greece (1776); History of Ilium (1803), in which he asserted the accuracy of Homer's geography . His Life of Bishop Waynflete, lord high chancellor to Henry VI., appeared in 1811 . A complete edition (with notes by Revett) of the Travels in Asia Minor and Greece was published by R .