Richard Chandler (1738 - 9 February 1810), English antiquary, was born at Elson in Hampshire, and educated at Winchester and at Queens College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford. Events February 4 - Court Jew Joseph Suss Oppenheimer is executed in Württenberg April 15 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. ... February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... An antiquarian is one concerned with antiquities or things of the past. ... Hampshire (abbr. ... Winchester is a city in southern England, with a population of around 40,000 within a 3 mile radius of its centre. ... Full name The Queens College of St Margaret and St Bernard Motto Floreat Domus May this House Flourish Named after - Previous names - Established 1448 Sister College Pembroke College President Lord Eatwell Location Silver Street Undergraduates 490 Graduates 270 Homepage Boatclub Queens College was first founded in 1448 by Margaret... College name Magdalen College Named after Mary Magdalene Established 1458 Sister College Magdalene College President Professor David Clary FRS JCR President Iain Anstess Undergraduates 395 Graduates 230 Homepage Boatclub Magdalen College (pronounced ) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...

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 Arundelian Marbles, Marmora Oxoniensia, with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for supplying the lacunae. He was sent by the Dilettanti Society with Nicholas Revett, an architect, and Pars, a painter, to explore the antiquities of Ionia and Greece (1763-1766); and the result of their work was the two magnificent folios of Ionian antiquities published in 1769. The Arundelian Marbles are a collection of Greek marbles collected by Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel. ... A lacuna is a gap in a manuscript, inscription or text. ... The Dilettante Society or Dilettanti was a society of noblemen and gentlemen founded in England in 1734, and which contributed to correct and purify the public taste of the country; their labours were devoted chiefly to the study of the relics of ancient Greek art, and resulted in the production... PARS (Programmable Airline Reservation System) is an IBM proprietary large scale airline reservation application, executing under the control of IBMs ACP (and later its successor, TPF). ... Ionia (Greek Ιωνία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was an ancient region of southwestern coastal Anatolia (now in Turkey) on the Aegean Sea. ...

He subsequently held several church preferments, including the rectory of Tylehurst, in Berkshire, where he died in 1810. Tilehurst was originally a village, but is now a large suburb some three miles to the west of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. ... Berkshire (IPA: or  ; sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a county in England and forms part of the South East England region. ...

Other works by Chandler were Inscriptiones Antiquae pleraeque nondum editae (Oxford, 1774); 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 Waynfiele, lord high chancellor to Henry VI, appeared in 1811. Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ...

A complete edition (with notes by Revett) of the Travels in Asia Minor and Greece was published by R. Churton (Oxford, 1825), with an Account of the Author.

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• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain.