Richard, D.D., one of the most learned and judicious of British travellers during the last century, was born in 1738 at Elson in Hampshire, educated at Winchester school, and subsequently at Queen's College, Oxford. His early publication of fragments from minor Greek poets, with notes, in 1759, showed his fine literary taste; and his splendid edition of the Arundelian marbles, Marmor Ozeaniensia, in 1763, with the accurate transcript of the venerable original, his good Latin translation, and judicious conjectures in supplying the lacunae, established his reputation as a scholar and an antiquary.

In 1763 Chandler was sent, with Revett the architect, and Pars a painter, by the Dilettanti Society of England, to explore the antiquities of Ionia and Greece. After spending above a year in Asia Minor, the travellers passed another year in Greece examining Attica and the Peloponnesus, and returned to England in the end of 1766. The result of their joint investigations were the two magnificent folios of Ionian antiquities published in 1769. Chandler published a very valuable collection of inscriptions, entitled Inscriptiones Antique peregrine nondum editae; in Asia Minore et Gracia preservatis Athenis collector, in a folio volume, at Oxford in 1774. In 1775 he published his Travels in Asia Minor, and in 1776 his Travels in Greece, each in a quarto volume; which have not been surpassed by those of any subsequent traveller. Octavo editions of both, with a memoir of the learned author, appeared in 1835. Dr Chandler married in 1786, and soon after travelled in Switzerland and Italy. In 1800 he obtained the rectory of Tylehurst in Berkshire, in addition to church preferment which he held in Hampshire. He died in Feb. 1810. His posthumous Life of Bishop Waynflete, Lord High Chancellor to Henry VI., was published in 1811.

Dr Samuel, a learned Dissenting minister, was born in 1693, at Hungerford, Berkshire, where his father was an eminent nonconformist minister. In an academy at Gloucester, conducted by Mr Samuel Jones, he contracted a friendship with Butler, afterwards bishop of Durham, and Secker, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, which continued to the end of their lives.

Mr Chandler began to preach about July 1714; and being soon distinguished by his talents in the pulpit, was chosen in 1716 minister of the Presbyterian congregation at Peckham. Here he married; but having lost, by the fatal South Sea scheme, the whole of his wife's fortune, he was compelled to open a book shop in the Poultry, which he kept for two or three years, still continuing to discharge his pastoral duties. He also held, alternately with Dr Lardner, a winter weekly evening lecture at the meeting-house in the Old Jewry; where he was first settled as assistant preacher, and then as pastor. Here, for forty years, he ministered to a very respectable congregation with great success; and devoted the intervals of leisure to writing on a variety of important subjects. While he was thus employed, the universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen conferred on him the degree of doctor in divinity, and he received offers of high preferment in the Established church, which he nobly declined. He had likewise the honour of being elected fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies.

On the death of George II. in 1760, Dr Chandler published a sermon on that event, in which he compared King George to King David. This called forth a pamphlet entitled The History of the Man after God's own Heart; in which the author—resuscitating the article of Bayle—exhibited king David as an example of perfidy, lust, and cruelty; and complained of the insult offered to the memory of the late British monarch by Dr Chandler's parallel. This attack determined Dr Chandler to publish an immediate reply in the following year; and also to prepare a more elaborate work, which was afterwards published in two volumes 8vo, entitled A Critical History of the Life of David, &c.; refuting the objections of Bayle, and satisfactorily expounding his penitential psalms. This, the last and perhaps the best of Dr Chandler's productions, had been printed off just before the author's death, which took place May 8, 1766.

Dr Chandler was a man of very extensive learning and eminent abilities; and his talents, both in the pulpit and as a writer, procured him very great and general esteem.

In 1768 four volumes of his sermons were published by Dr Amory, according to his own directions in his last will. In 1777 another work of his was published in one volume 4to—A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians, with doctrinal and practical Observations; together with a critical and practical Commentary on the two Epistles of St Paul to the Thessalonians.

CHANG Chau, a town of China, province of Fo-Kien, on a river, 35 miles W. of Amoy. It is said to be well built, with streets paved with granite, but very dirty. A wooden bridge, about 800 feet long, spans the river. Pop. said to be about 800,000.