Samuel Lisle

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Samuel Lisle

Bishop of Norwich
Bp Samuel Lisle.jpg
DioceseDiocese of Norwich
In office1748–1749
PredecessorThomas Gooch
SuccessorThomas Hayter
Other post(s)Bishop of St Asaph (1743–1748)
Personal details
Born1683
Blandford, Dorset
Died3 October 1749(1749-10-03) (aged 66)
London
BuriedSt Mary the Virgin, Northolt
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
Alma materWadham 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. ^ Jump up to: a b c 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. ^ http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/?History:Celebrated_Rectors
  6. ^ "Northall (Northolt) | British History Online".
Academic offices
Preceded by
Robert Thistlethwayt
Warden of Wadham College, Oxford
1761–1776
Succeeded by
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
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