Background
CARLISLE, since 1904 was born on March 2, 1847 in Strawberry Hill, Pendleton. Son of W. Diggle, 19 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.
CARLISLE, since 1904 was born on March 2, 1847 in Strawberry Hill, Pendleton. Son of W. Diggle, 19 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.
Studied at Manchester Grammar School; Merton College Oxford. Math. Postmaster Merton College 1866; 1st class Law and History, 1870; Lect. Merton and Corpus Christi College Colleges, Oxford, 1871; Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts in same Class List of Final Honours School with Right Honourable A. D. Acland, Member of Parliament, and late Lord Randolph Churchill, Member of Parliament.
Ordained, 1871. Curate Whalley Range, 1871. All Saints’, Liverpool, 1872.
St. John’s, Walton, 1874. Vicar of Mossley Hill, 1875-1897, Surrogate. Rural Dean of Child wall, 1882.
J Honorary Canon of Liverpool, 1887. President of Liverpool Council of Education, 1891. Select Preacher, University of Oxford, 1899.
Canon of Carlisle and Archdeacon of Westmorland, 1896- 1901. Examining Chaplain to Bishop of Carlisle, 1896-1902. Archdeacon of Birmingham, 1903-1904.
Rector, Birmingham, 1902-1904, and Rural Dean, I 1903-1904. Late ExaminingChaplain to Bishop of Birmingham. Right Reverend John William Diggle.
Club: Athenaeum.