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

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