Rev Joseph Dacre Carlyle FRSE (4 June 1758 – 12 April 1804) was an English orientalist.
He was appointed Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic when William Craven resigned in 1796.
[4] In 1799, Carlyle was appointed chaplain to Lord Elgin's mission to Constantinople, with the special scholarly duties of learned referee.
He made a tour through Asia Minor, Palestine, Greece, and Italy, collecting Greek and Syriac manuscripts for a proposed new version of the New Testament.
[5] Carlyle's Poems suggested chiefly by Scenes in Asia Minor, Syria and Greece, together with some translations from the Arabic, were published after his death, 1805, with extracts from his journal and a preface after them.