CHANDLER

chandler, richard (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 the lacunae. 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 1810. 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. churton (oxford, 1825), with an "account of the author."