{{Short description|British bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | 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, 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 | religion = 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 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.<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/>

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{{s-start}} {{s-aca}} {{s-bef|before=Robert Thistlethwayt}} {{s-ttl|title=Warden of Wadham College, Oxford|years=1761–1776}} {{s-aft|after=George Wyndham}} {{s-rel|en}} {{s-bef|before=John Thomas}} {{s-ttl|title=Bishop of St Asaph|years=1743–1748}} {{s-aft|after=Robert Hay Drummond}} {{s-bef|before=Thomas Gooch}} {{s-ttl|title=Bishop of Norwich|years=1748–1749}} {{s-aft|after=Thomas Hayter}} {{end}}

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