Samuel Lisle

Samuel Lisle (1683 – 3 October 1749) was an English academic and bishop.

Life

Lisle was born in Blandford, Dorset. He graduated M.A. at Wadham College, Oxford, in 1706, and was ordained in 1707.

He was chaplain to the Levant Company from 1710 to 1719. On his return he advocated for a better Bible translation in Arabic. He was rector of Tooting in 1720. He became Archdeacon of Canterbury in 1724 and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, in 1739. He was also rector of St Mary-le-Bow, from 1721 to 1744; and rector of Northolt, from 1729. He was Bishop of St Asaph, in 1744, and the bishop of Norwich, in 1748.

He died in London and was buried at St Mary the Virgin, Northolt, Middlesex.

Works

He collected inscriptions during his Levant chaplaincy, and they were printed in the Antiquitates Asiaticae of Edmund Chishull (1728).