Background
He was the son of William Diggle, a warehouseman of Pendleton, Lancashire and his wife Nancy Ann née Chadderton.
He was the son of William Diggle, a warehouseman of Pendleton, Lancashire and his wife Nancy Ann née Chadderton.
Diggle was educated at Manchester Grammar School.
And Merton College, Oxford. He began his career with curacies at Street Margaret, Whalley Range, All Saints’, Liverpool and Street John's, Walton. From 1875 until 1897 he was Vicar of Mossley Hill.
He was in 1896 collated Archdeacon of Westmorland, serving until November 1901, and then in 1903 Archdeacon of Birmingham.
In 1905 he became Bishop of Carlisle, a post he held until his death on 24 March 1920.
