CHANDLER, Richard, D.D. (1738-1810), a British antiquary, was born in 1738, at Elson in Hampshire, and was educated at Winchester school, and Queen’s College, Oxford. His first work consisted of fragments from the minor Greek poets, with notes (1759); and in 1763 he published a fine edition of the Arundelian marbles, Mαrmοrα Oxοηieηsia, with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for supplying the lacunae. In 1763 Chandler, together with Revett, the architect, and Pars, a painter, was sent by the Dilettanti Society to explore the antiquities of Ionia and Greece. After spending above a year in Asia Minor the travellers passed another year in Greece, examining Attica and the Peloponnesus, and returned to England in the end of 1766. The result of their joint investigations was the two magnificent folios of Ionian antiquities published in 1769. Chandler also published a very valuable collection of inscriptions, entitled Inscriptiones Antiquoe pleroeque nondum editoe, in Asia Minore et Groecia, proesertim Athenis, collectas (Oxford, 1774). In 1775 he published his Travels in Asia Minor ; in 1776 his Travels in Greece; andin 1800 his History of Iliτιm, in which he asserted the accuracy of Homer’s geography. His Life of Bishop Waynflete, Lord High Chancellor to Henry VI., did not appear tül after his death, in 1811. After his return from Greece, Chandler obtained several church preferments, including the rectory of Tylehurst, in Berkshire; and after marrying and travelling for some time in Switzerland and Italy, he settled down in England, where he died in 1810....
CHANDLER, Samuel, D.D. (1693-1766), a learned Dissenting minister, was born at Hungerford, in Berkshire, where his father was an eminent Nonconformist minister. He was sent to school at Gloucester, where he commenced a life-long friendship with Bishop Butler and Archbishop Seeker; and he afterwards studied at Leyden. His talents and learning were such that he was elected fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and was made D.D. of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. He also received offers of high preferment in the Established church. These he decidedly refused, remaining to the end of his life in the position of a Presbyterian minister. For some time he preached at Peckham, and for forty years he was pastor of the meetinghouse in the Old Jewry. During two or three years, having fallen into pecuniary distress through the failure of the South Sea Scheme, he kept a book-shop in the Poultry. On the death of George II. Chandler published a sermon in which he compared that king to King David. This view was attacked in a pamphlet entitled Ths History of ths Man after God's own Heart, in which the author complained of the parallel as an insult to the late king, and, following Bayle, exhibited king David as an example of perfidy, lust, and cruelty. Chandler condescended to reply in A Critical History of the Life of David, which is perhaps the best of his productions. This work was just completed when he died, on May 8, 1766. He left 4 vols, of sermons (1768), and commentaries on St Paul’s Epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians, and Thessalonians (1777), several works on the evidences of Christianity, and a work on subscription to articles of faith (1748).
