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 two sons, still boys, of whose orphanage he is said to have had a melancholy oreboding. The orthography of his name, too, is quite uncertain. No signature seems to be extant. Hakluyt, whose spelling of names is always wild, wavers between Chanceler and Chancelour, and Clement Adams latinises it as Cancelerus. Hakluyt prints Chancellor’s ‘Booke of the great and mighty Emperor of Russia. . .’ dedicated to the author’s uncle, Christopher Frothingham.

 CHANCY or CHAWNEY, MAURICE. [See .]

CHANDLER, ANNE (1740–1814). [See .]

CHANDLER, BENJAMIN, M.D. (1737–1786), surgeon, who practised for many years at Canterbury, was admitted extra-licentiate of the London College of Physicians on 31 Oct. 1783, and died on 10 May 1786. He wrote ‘An Essay towards an Investigation of the resent successful and most general Methods of Inoculation,’ 8vo, London, 1767, which was the earliest detailed account of the practice, and ‘An Injury into the various Theories and Methods of Cure in Apoplexies and Palsies,’ 8vo, Canterbury, 1785, which is a criticism of Cullen’s two chapters on that subject, and a comparison of his views with those of others and the results of his own experience.

 CHANDLER, EDWARD (1668?–1750), bishop of Durham, was son of Samuel Chandler of Dublin. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and in 1693 became M.A., was ordained priest, and appointed chaplain to Lloyd, bishop of Winchester. In 1697 he became prebendary of Lichfield; became D.D. in 1701, and in 1703 received the stall in Salisbury vacant by the death of Lancelot Addison. In 1706 he became prebendary of Viforcester. He was consecrated his house of Lichfield on 17 Nov. 1717. In 1730 he was translated to Durham, and confirmed on 21 Nov. Chandler was a man of more learning than capacity. He gained some reputation by ‘A Defence of Christianity from the Prophecies, &c.’ (1725), in answer to Collins’s well-known ‘Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion.’ - Collins having replied in his ‘Scheme of Liberal Prophecy.’ Chandler published in 1728 ‘A Vindication of the “Defence of Christianity.” The main point at issue was the date of the book of Daniel, in regard to which Collins had anticipated the views of some modern critics. He also published eight sermons, a ‘Chronological Dissertation.' prefixed to R. Arnald’s ‘Commentary on Ecclesiasticus ’ (17 48) [see ], and a short preface to Cudworth’s ‘Treatise on Immutable Morality’ when first ublished in 1731. He died, after a long illness, in London on 20 Jul. 1750, and was buried at Farnham Royal.

Chandler was accused of having given 9,000l. for the see of Durham. King (Anecdotes, p. 118) mentions him as one of the prelates who died ‘shamefull rich.’ On the other hand, it is said that he gave 50l. to the living of Monkwearmouth, 200l. towards a house fiat the minister of Stockton, 2,000l. for the benefit of clergymen’s widows in his diocese, and that he never sold any of his patent offices. He married Barbara, eldest daughter of Sir Humphrey Briggs, and had by her two sons and three daughters. His ‘great riches’ went, upon their decease without issue, to James Lesley, bishop of Limerick, who had been his chaplain and had married his niece, Miss Lister (Gent. Mag. for 1793, p. 974, where are other particulars about his family).

 CHANDLER, JOHANNA (1820–1875), philanthropist, born in 1820, was one of the four children of a Mr. Chandler. She was early left an orphan, and taken to the home of her mother’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pinnock, of St. Pancras parish, London. On the death of Mrs. Pinnock in 1856 her granddaughters resolved to devote themselves to providing a hospital for paralytics. Johanna and her sisters learned to make flowers and light ornaments of Barbadoes rice-shells, strung together with pearl and white glass beads, and produced by this hard labour for two years 2001. Johanna then applied to the public for subscriptions. The lord mayor, A1derman Wire, himself a paralytic sufferer, allowed her to call a meeting at the Mansion House on 2 Nov. 1859, at which he presided, and at which the subscriptions reached 800l. A committee was formed, a house was rented in Queen Square, and was formally opened by May 1860, with the title of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. The institution flourished, and Miss Chandler raised subscriptions and founded the Samaritan Society, to give aid to outdoor patients; she also founded the home for convalescent