Richard Chandler (bookseller)
Richard Chandler may refer to: * Richard Chandler (antiquary) (1737–1810), English antiquary * Richard Chandler-Cavendish (died 1769), took the name of Cavendish in 1751, MP for Wendover (UK Parliament constituency), Wendover * Richard Chandler (businessman) (born 1958/59), New Zealand born businessman * Dick Chandler (1910–1969), Australian rules footballer * Richard Chandler (wool-stapler) (died 1810), wool-stapler of Gloucester {{hndis, name=Chandler, Richard ...
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Richard Chandler (antiquary)
Richard Chandler (1737 – 9 February 1810) was an English antiquary. Education Chandler was born in Elson, Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester and at Queen's College, Oxford, and Magdalen College, Oxford.W. W. Wroth‘Chandler, Richard (bap. 1737, d. 1810)’ rev. R. D. E. Eagles, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 28 Dec 2008Some of his correspondence is in the Magdalen archives. Early work His first work consisted of fragments from the minor Greek poets, with notes (''Elegiaca Graeca'', 1759); and in 1763 he published a fine edition of the inscriptions among the Arundel marbles, ''Marmora Oxoniensia'', with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for supplying the lacunae. Antiquarian work In 1764 he was introduced by Robert Wood, who had produced the ''Ruins of Palmyra'' to the Society of Dilettanti and sent by them, accompanied by Nicholas Revett, an architect, and William Pars, ...
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