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{{Short description|British bishop}}
'''Samuel Lisle''' (1683-1749) was an English academic and bishop.▼
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| honorific-prefix = {{pre-nominal styles|RRevd}}
| name = Samuel Lisle
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|}}
| image = Bp Samuel Lisle.jpg
| caption =
| title = [[Bishop of Norwich]]
| diocese = [[Diocese of Norwich]]
| term = 1748–1749
| predecessor = [[Thomas Gooch]]
| successor = [[Thomas Hayter]]
| other_post = [[Bishop of St Asaph]] (1743–1748)
| birth_date = 1683
| birth_place = [[Blandford Forum|Blandford]], [[Dorset]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1749|10|3|1683|1|1|df=y}}
| death_place = London
| buried = [[St Mary the Virgin, Northolt]]
| nationality = [[British people|British]]
| religion = [[Anglicanism|Anglican]]
| residence =
| parents =
| spouse =
| children =
| profession =
| education =
| alma_mater = [[Wadham College, Oxford]]
}}
▲'''Samuel Lisle''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|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,<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp921-955 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Lee-Llewellin]</ref> and was ordained in 1707.<ref name = CDNB>''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''</ref>
 
He was [[chaplain to the [[Levant Company]] from 1710 to 1719. On his return he advocated for a better Bible translation in Arabic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/orthodoxy/extract_arabick1725.html|title = Extract of Several Letters Relating to the Great Charity and Usefulness of Printing the New Testament and Psalter in the Arabick Language (1725)}}</ref> He was rector of [[Tooting]] in 1720. He became archdeacon[[List of Archdeacons of Canterbury|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 [[Bishopbishop of Norwich]], in 1748.<ref name = CDNB/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45393|title=Tooting &#124; British History Online}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/?History:Celebrated_Rectors|title = St Mary le Bow Church, London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45440|title=Northall (Northolt) &#124; British History Online}}</ref>
 
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). .<ref name = CDNB/>
 
==Notes==
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{{s-ttl|title=[[Wadham College, Oxford|Warden of Wadham College, Oxford]]|years=1761 – 17761761–1776}}
{{s-aft|after=[[George Wyndham (Wadhamwarden)|George Wyndham]]}}
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{{s-bef|before=[[John Thomas II (bishop of Salisbury)|John Thomas]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Bishop of St Asaph]]|years=1743 – 17481743–1748}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Robert Hay Drummond]]}}
{{s-bef|before=[[Thomas Gooch]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Bishop of Norwich]]|years=1748 – 17491748–1749}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Thomas Hayter]]}}
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{{Bishops of St Asaph}}
{{Bishops of Norwich}}
 
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[[Category:1683 births]]
[[Category:1749 deaths]]
[[Category:Clergy from Dorset]]
[[Category:Bishops of Norwich]]
[[Category:Bishops of St Asaph]]
[[Category:Archdeacons of Canterbury]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]]
[[Category:18th-century Church of England bishops]]
[[Category:Wardens of Wadham College, Oxford]]
[[Category:18th-century Welsh Anglican bishops]]
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