not now in the hands of a Tyrtæus or Simonides, was still however cherished on the banks of the Ilissus; and “ θεν θελω να σιωπῇ ἡ λυρα,” the “ απο

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πaσσaλov popμiyya" of modern days, was the signal to awaken the harmony of the sleeping strings.

In 1772 he was senior proctor of the university, and discharged the duties of that important and delicate office with firmness and fortitude.

He was admitted to the degree of B. D. April 23, 1773; and D. D. December 17 the same year.

A year or two after this he bestowed much time and pains in examining the archives of the college of which he was an ornament, for his friend the Rev. Gilbert White, senior fellow of Oriel college, who was then collecting materials for the history of his native parish of Selborne, Hants; which having since been published in more than one edition, and finding an encomiast in every reader, needs not here be commended. But it may be proper to mention one or two incidental results of this laborious research in the ancient deeds and muniments of the college. The investigation, if it did not give the first hint, certainly furnished many facts and dates and notices, which were of material use, when, some years afterwards, he compiled with much care the Life of William of Waynflete, the pious and munificent founder of the college of St. Mary Magdalen ; and the same inquiry also (if that may be noted)

Published after his decease, by his and my friend, the late Charles Lambert esq. London, 1811.

gave the young friend, who then shared and now records his labours, the first relish for ancient parchments, and a desire to be acquainted with the handwriting of men, who adorned the days in which they lived, and have since been long numbered with the venerable dead.

In July 1779 he was presented by his college to the consolidated livings of East Worldham and West Tisted, near Alton, Hants; which preferment, though not very ample, had two recommendations to him; it was in his native county, and near his esteemed friends, the historian of Selborne, and the rev. Andrew Etty, the worthy and very exemplary vicar of that parish. There being no house suitable for the residence of a clergyman, at either of these places, (a defect which by the liberality of the college, and of the present worthy incumbent, Mr. Lowndes, who is building a good house at Worldham, will soon be removed,) he fitted up the vicarial house, a small cottage, at Worldham, and resided in it.

In 1785, Oct. 2, he was married, at St. George's church, Hanover Square, to Miss Benigna Dorrien, daughter of Liebert Dorrien esquire, a gentleman of foreign, it is believed German, extraction, but born in London, where his father, Frederick Dorrien, was a merchant of good repute.

Immediately after his marriage he went with Mrs. Chandler to Nismes, where they passed the winter, and then visited Switzerland, residing chiefly at Vevay and Rolle. In 1787 they proceeded into

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Italy; and returned in 1788, through Florence to Rolle, where a son, William Berkeley, was born; and a daughter, Georgiana, some years afterwards, in England; both now resident, with their excellent mother, at Rolle.

In the leisure and opportunities, which foreign residence afforded, he did not forget the classics and theology. He amused himself with collating different MSS. of his favourite Pindar, particularly in the Vatican, and in the Medicean library at Florence; in which he was "assisted by his va"luable friend, the late Mr. William Clarke, of Li

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verpool 8." The various readings thus collected, though illustrated by him with observations, have not yet been submitted to the public, but remain in safe hands, to be used by some future editor of the Theban bard h. Having at the same time disf Letter dated Rolle, Jan. 11, 1825.

8 Of this second town in the kingdom may be said, as anciently was said of Tyre, "Her merchants are princes—the honourable of "the earth." Isai. xxiii. 8. Whether Mr. Clarke, son of a banker in Liverpool, actually assisted in collating Greek manuscripts, as I have ventured on credible authority (Gent. Mag. 1810, p. 188.) to say, I am not certainly informed. He constantly accompanied Dr. Chandler; but his own immediate object was to collate MSS. and collect information, particularly at Florence, respecting the Medici family, for his friend Mr. Roscoe, the celebrated historian of Lorenzo de Medici.

h I regret most sincerely that Dr. Chandler's often promised and prepared account of the Troad (see Address to the Reader, prefixed to his Hist. of Ilium or Troy) and the collations of Pindar, are not at present accessible. A considerable period after his decease having elapsed before Mrs. Chandler went abroad, and no inquiry or mention having been made of these manuscripts, they

covered, in the inexhaustible stores of the Vatican, some very ancient and curious MSS. of the Greek Testament, scarcely, as he thought, yielding the palm of priority to the famous Alexandrian MS. and poring upon them with great avidity, the jealousy of the papal court, unwilling that the sources of primitive truth should be explored by any who were not of her communion, spirited away these inestimable treasures; and, to his no small regret, he was not permitted to have sight of them again.

The humanity of letters was pleasingly exemplified, when he was on this classic ground. He was not only received with the respect due to his talents and learning, but welcomed with the cordiality of friendship, by the learned and benevolent cardinal Borgia, and other literati of Rome; one of whom, Ignatius Raponi, addressed to him a learned dissertation on an ancient Greek inscription, an epitaph on a female orphan of six years old, in six elegant elegiac lines, which had been printed by Muratori and others, but incorrectly. Raponi therefore copied the inscription with a view to publication, and having examined it again, under a burning sun, in company with Dr. Chandler, was by him encouraged to publish. As there are now probably few copies

were packed up with so many other papers and effects in Cumberland, where for some time she resided, that "it is out of the question to commission any one to find them." Letter from Rolle, received Jan. 28, 1825.

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in England of this dissertation, I subjoin the title of it below, in which the reader will not fail to observe the facility, with which a modern provincial town adopts the style and address of ancient Rome, in the days of her consular and imperial strength and splendor i.

He was presented in 1800, by Dr. Sheppard, formerly fellow of Magdalen college, and at that time vicar of Basingstoke, and rector of Quarley, Hants, to the rectory and vicarage of Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks, where from that time he resided. There his "History of Ilium or Troy" is dated, May 10, 1802; and there, after partial recovery from a paralytic or apoplectic seizure, an event which he had many years before foreboded *, his valuable life terminated, Feb. 9, 1810, in the

72d year of his
of his age.

To these brief Memoirs, penned with affectionate regret for the memory of the friend, whom I had so much reason to esteem and love, it is needless to subjoin a studied delineation of character. The simple facts argue, it is hoped, a mind active and

i Ignatii M. Raponi Romani Academ. Litter. Volsc. Velitern. Soc. de Epigrammate Græco Romæ in Colimontanis Matthæjorum hortis extante. Ad cl. Virum Richardum Chandler Anglum. Velitris MDCCLXXXVIII.

Excudebat Cæsar Sartori S. P. Q. V. Typographus
Superiorum Facultate.

k On staggering, rather dangerously, as I was walking with him in the dock-yard at Portsmouth.