Chandler, RICHARD, a learned classical archaeologist, was born at Elson, Hants, in 1738, and educated at Winchester and at Queen's and Magdalen colleges, Oxford. His first important work was Marmora Oxoniensia (1763), an elaborate description of the Oxford marbles. He afterwards travelled through Greece and Asia Minor, with Revett, architect, and Pars, a painter, at the expense of the Dilettanti Society, to examine and describe the antiquities. The materials collected were given to the world in the following publications: Ionian Antiquities (1769), Inscriptiones Antiquae (1774), Travels in Asia Minor (1775), and Travels in Greece
(1776). Chandler was made D.D. in 1773, and afterwards held preferments in Hants and at Tilehurst, near Reading, in Berks, where he died 9th February 1810.