[See CHANDLER 2.] One whose trade is to make or sell tallow candles.
1406. Close Roll 7 Hen. IV. b. Simon atte Holke, Talogh-chaundeler.
1431. Cal. Pat. Rolls 9 Hen. VI. 96. Henry Pollard, citizen and talghchaundeler of London.
c. 1515. Cocke Lorell’s B., 9. Talowe chaundelers, hostelers, and glouers.
1683. Tryon, Way to Health, 595. Neither does a Tallow-Chandler smell those horrible Scents and pernicious Fumes that old Tallow sends forth when it is melted.
a. 1763. Ld. Granville, in Boswell, Johnson, an. 1780. A letter, expressed in terms not good enough for a tallow-chandler to have used.
1771. Franklin, Autobiog., Wks. 1840, I. 10. At ten years old I was taken to help my father in his business, which was that of a tallow chandler and soap-boiler.
1830. Henry Neele, Tales, 88. A tallow-chandler, who was the chief tradesman of the town, as well as a violent Radical.
1876. L. Stephen, Hist. Eng. Th. 18th C., I. III. v. 163. He was early apprenticed to a tallow-chandler.
Hence Tallow-chandlering, also Tallow-chandling (cf. market-gardening), the operation or business of a tallow-chandler.
1837–8. Thackeray, Yellowplush Corr., i. Her father being a bankrup in the tallow-chandlering way.
1876. L. Stephen, Hist. Eng. Th. 18th C., I. III. v. 163. The exception to his tallow-chandling was a short residence with Sir Joseph.
