CHANDLER, SAMUEL (1693-1766), English Noncon formist divine, was born in 1693 at Hungerford, Berkshire. He took a leading part in the deist controversies of the time, and dis cussed with some of the bishops the possibility of an act of corn prehension. From 1716-26 he preached at Peckham, and for 4o years he was pastor of a meeting-house in Old Jewry. He died on May 8, 1766, leaving four vols. of sermons (1768), and a para phrase of the Epistles to the Galatians and Ephesians sev eral works on the evidence of Christianity, and various pamphlets against Roman Catholicism.