CHANDLER, RICHARD (1738-181o), British antiquary, was born at Elson in Hampshire. In 1759 he published fragments from the Greek minor poets, with notes (Elegiaca Graeca) ; and in 1763 a fine edition of the Arunde lian marbles, Marmora Oxoni ensia, with a Latin translation, and suggestions for supplying the lacunae. He was sent by the Dilettanti Society with Revett, an architect, and Pars, a painter, to explore the antiquities of Ionia and Greece (1763-66) ; and the result of their work was the two magnificent folios of Ionian antiquities published in 1769. Other works by Chandler were Inscriptiones Antiquae pleraeque nondum editae ; 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 (1825), with an "Account of the Author."