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RICHARD CHANDLER (1738-1810)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD CHANDLER (1738-1810)  ,
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British
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antiquary, was born in 1738 at Elson in Hampshire, and educated at Winchester and at Queen's and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford . His first
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work consisted of fragments from the minor Greek poets, with notes (Elegiaca Graeca, 1759); and in 1763 he published a
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fine edition of the Arundelian
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marbles, Marmora Oxoniensia, with a Latin
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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
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Ionia and
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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
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February 181o . Other
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works by Chandler were Inscriptiones Antiquae pleraeque nondum editae (Oxford, 1774); Travels in
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Asia Minor (1775); Travels in Greece (1776);
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History of Ilium (1803), in which he asserted the accuracy of Homer's geography . His
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Life of Bishop Waynflete, lord high chancellor to Henry VI., appeared in 1811 . A
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complete edition (with notes by Revett) of the Travels in Asia Minor and Greece was published by R .

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