The Rt Rev John William Diggle, DD was born on 2 March 1847. He was the son of William Diggle, a warehouseman of Pendleton, Lancashire and his wife Nancy Ann née Chadderton. His younger brother, Joseph Diggle (1849–1917) was to become chairman of the London School Board.[1]
John was educated at Manchester Grammar School[2] and Merton College, Oxford[3]. He began his career with curacies at St Margaret, Whalley Range[4], All Saints’, Liverpool and St John’s, Walton. From 1875 until 1897 he was Vicar of Mossley Hill[5]. He was later appointed Archdeacon of Westmorland and then of Birmingham[6]. In 1905 he became Bishop of Carlisle, [7] a post he held[8] until his death on 24 March 1920[9].
His son, Percy Robert Diggle, was a rugby union international, representing the Combined British on the 1910 RFU tour to Argentina, an early incarnation of the British and Irish Lions.
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| Preceded by John Wareing Bardsley |
Bishop of Carlisle 1905 – 1920 |
Succeeded by Henry Herbert Williams |
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