John Diggle
John William Diggle (2 March 1847 – 24 March 1920) was an English Anglican bishop.
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]
Diggle 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 in 1896 collated Archdeacon of Westmorland, serving until November 1901, and then in 1903 Archdeacon 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.
References
- ↑ Donald P. Leinster-Mackay (2004). "Diggle, Joseph Robert (1849–1917)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ↑ 1911 Encyclopaedia
- ↑ Genuki
- ↑ The Times, Thursday, Jul 11, 1889; pg. 5; Issue 32748; col D Ecclesiastical Appointments
- ↑ London Gazette
- ↑ Images of Cumbria
- ↑ National Archives
- ↑ Obituary The Bishop Of Carlisle. A Liberal Prelate The Times Friday, Mar 26, 1920; pg. 18; Issue 42369; col B
| Church of England titles | ||
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| Preceded by John Wareing Bardsley |
Bishop of Carlisle 1905 – 1920 |
Succeeded by Henry Herbert Williams |