Author: Chandler, Charles
Biography:
CHANDLER, Charles (fl 1773-83)
Although the title page of the work listed here as by Chandler identifies him as “the Rev. Charles Chandler,” his name is not in CCEd, nor does it seem that he attended either Oxford or Cambridge university. No public records that can reliably be linked to Chandler have been located. An earlier work, An Invitation to Sinners to Come to Jesus (1773), was sold at the Margaret Street chapel near Cavendish Square in London. Likely Chandler was a member of a marginal Protestant sect, a number of which successively occupied the Margaret Street chapel in the 1770s. Ancient and Modern Popery is dedicated to Lord George Gordon, President of the Protestant Association and political agitator who sought the repeal of the first Catholic Relief bill and after whom the Gordon riots are named. The dedication is dated 6 Oct. 1783 from Holly Bush hill, Hampstead. In an ironic twist, from 1829 the Margaret Street chapel was a centre for the nascent Catholic Apostolic church in London. (ODNB [for George Gordon] 8 Nov. 2023; Peter Galloway, Frederick Oakeley and the Oxford Movement [1999], 43) SR