by George J. Dance
Rev. Thomas Lisle (1709 - 27 March 1767) was an English poet and cleric.
Crux Easton Manor, Thomas Lisle's birth place. Photo by Colin Bates, 2005. Licensed by Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Lisle was born at the manor of Crux Easton, Hampshire. The manor had been in the possession of the Lisle family from approximately 1300. Thomas's father, Edward Lisle (1666-1722), came into the Crux Easton estate in about 1693; he married Mary Phillipps (1672-1749), daughter of Sir Ambrose Phillipps, of Garrenden, Leicester, in 1688 and fathered 8 sons and 12 daughters over a period of 28 years.[1]
Thomas matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 10 September 1725, aged 16. He earned a B.A. in 1729 and an M.A in 1732. He was a fellow of the college 1732-1747.[2]
Career[]
Lisle took holy orders, and was appointed chaplain to the English community at the Levant Company’s factory at Smyrna, in 1732.[3] From epistolary poems which he wrote as letters to his sisters, we know he was at Smyrna in 1733, at Cairo in 1734, and at Marseilles in May 1735.[4]
Returning to England, he was appointed rector of Burghclere, Hants, in 1735,[5] and rector of Wotton, on the Isle of Wight, in 1737,[2]
He returned to Magdalen Hall, earning a B.D. in 1740 and a D.D. in 1743. He served the college as dean of arts in 1740, bursar in 1741, and public orator in 1746.[2]
In 1755, having purchased volume IV of Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems; by several hands, Lisle wrote to Dodsley, offering some of his poems from his younger days. Dodsley printed 7 of Lisle's poems in Volume VI of his collection.[6]
Lisle edited his father's notes on agriculture, published as Observations on Husbandry by Dodsley in 1756.[6]
Lisle died 27 March 1767.[2] His ghost is said to haunt Wootton [Wotton] Lodge on the Isle of Wight.[6]
Recognition[]
There is a marble monument to him in Dibden churchyard on the Isle of Wight.[7]
See also[]
References[]
- Anthony Beckles Willson, Alexander Pope and the Grotto at Crux Easton, Research Note, February 2009, Tickenham Museum Archive. Web, Oct. 3, 2020.
Notes[]
- ↑ Willson, 1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Thomas Lisle, Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 3, 855. Wikisource, Web, Oct. 3, 2020.
- ↑ Willson, 2.
- ↑ Thomas Lisle, Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive. Web, Oct. 3, 2020.
- ↑ Willson, 4.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley, 1733-1764, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 195. Google Books, Web, Oct. 3, 2020 (pp. 162-210).
- ↑ John Bullar, A Companion in a Tour round Southampton ... And a Tour of the Isle of Wight, 1801, 115. Google Books, Web, Oct. 3, 2020.
External links[]
- Poems
- Thomas Lisle in the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (6 poems)
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