Samuel Lisle
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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, 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).
Notes
| Academic offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byRobert Thistlethwayt | Warden of Wadham College, Oxford 1761–1776 | Succeeded byGeorge Wyndham |
| Church of England titles | ||
| Preceded byJohn Thomas | Bishop of St Asaph 1743–1748 | Succeeded byRobert Hay Drummond |
| Preceded byThomas Gooch | Bishop of Norwich 1748–1749 | Succeeded byThomas Hayter |