Samuel Lisle

Samuel Lisle FRS (1683 – 3 October 1749) was an English academic and bishop.

On his return he advocated for a better Bible translation in Arabic.

He became Archdeacon of Canterbury in 1724 and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, in 1739.

[2][4][5][6] He died in London and was buried at St Mary the Virgin, Northolt, Middlesex.

He collected inscriptions during his Levant chaplaincy, and they were printed in the Antiquitates Asiaticae of Edmund Chishull (1728).