Samuel Lisle

The Right Reverend Samuel Lisle
Bishop of Norwich
Diocese	Diocese of Norwich
In office	1748–1749
Predecessor	Thomas Gooch
Successor	Thomas Hayter
Other post(s)	Bishop of St Asaph (1743–1748)
Personal details
Born	1683 Blandford, Dorset
Died	3 October 1749(1749-10-03) (aged 66) London
Buried	St Mary the Virgin, Northolt
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford

Samuel Lisle FRS (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,[1] and was ordained in 1707.[2]

He was chaplain to the Levant Company from 1710 to 1719. On his return he advocated for a better Bible translation in Arabic.[3] 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 Northall, from 1729. He was Bishop of St Asaph, in 1744, and the bishop of Norwich, in 1748.[2][4][5][6]

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).[2]

Notes

1. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Lee-Llewellin
2. Concise Dictionary of National Biography
3. "Extract of Several Letters Relating to the Great Charity and Usefulness of Printing the New Testament and Psalter in the Arabick Language (1725)".
4. "Tooting | British History Online".
5. "St Mary le Bow Church, London".
6. "Northall (Northolt) | British History Online".

Academic offices
Preceded by Robert Thistlethwayt	Warden of Wadham College, Oxford 1761–1776	Succeeded by George Wyndham
Church of England titles
Preceded by John Thomas	Bishop of St Asaph 1743–1748	Succeeded by Robert Hay Drummond
Preceded by Thomas Gooch	Bishop of Norwich 1748–1749	Succeeded by Thomas Hayter