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The Right Reverend Samuel Lisle 
Bishop of Norwich
Diocese Diocese of Norwich
In Office 1748–1749
Predecessor Thomas Gooch
Successor Thomas Hayter
Other posts 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, 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 Northall, 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).

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