CHANDLER, DR. RICHARD, was born at Eisen in Hampshire, iu 1738, studied at Winchester School, and afterwards entered Queen's College, Oxford, in May 1755. Soon after taking his Bachelor's degree (in 1759) he published Elegiaca Gresca,' containing the frag ments of Tyrtxua, Simonides, Meleager, Menus, &c., with notes. In 1763 he edited the splendid work 'Marmora Oxonienaia.' In 1764 ho was sent by the Dilettanti Society to travel into Asia Minor and Greece, in company with Revett the architect and Para the painter. They spent more than a year in Asia Minor ; and in 1765 they pro ceeded to Athena, and passed another year in examining Attica and the Peloponneens. They returned to England in November 1766. Tho result of their labours, the Ionian Antiquities, or Ruins of Mag nificent and Famous Buildings in Ionia,' 2 vols. folio, was published in London in 1769. In 1774 Chandler published 'Iuscriptionca Antiques plermque nondum edites in Asia Minori et Grmcia, prtesertim Athenia collector, fol., Oxford. Hia 'Travels in Asia Minor,' 4to, 1775, and Travels in Greece,' 4to, 1776, still rank among the best descriptions of those countries. Thero is a French translation (Paris, 1806) of the ' Travels in Asia Minor and in Greece,' with notes, by J. P. Servois and
Barbi6 du Bocage. These two works have been since republished together, by the Rev. R. Churton, with Revett's remarks, and a biography of Dr. Chandler, 2 vols. 8vo, 1835. In 1773 Chandler took the degree of D.D.; and in 1779 he obtained the living of East World ham and West Tlated, Hants. In 1785 he married, and afterwards travelled in Switzerland and Italy. In 1800 he was made rector of Tylehurat in Berkshire, when he published his History of Ilium, or Troy, including the adjacent country and the opposite coast of the Chersoneaus,' 4to, London, 1802, in which he refuted Bryant's assertion "that the Trojan war was a fiction, and that no such a city as Troy in Pbrygia ever existed ;" and be vindicated tho veracity of Homer, and especially the truth of his local descriptions. Dr. Chandler died in February 1810, in his seventy-second year. He left in manuscript, The Life of William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, Lord High Chancellor of England in the reign of Henry VI., and Founder of Magdalen College,' which was published in Svcs, London, 1811.