Early Life and Family
Diggle was born in Pendleton, Lancashire, the youngest son of William Diggle, a warehouseman and his wife Nancy Ann née Chadderton. His elder brother, John William Diggle (1847–1920) was to become Bishop of Carlisle.
Joseph was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford where he read Modern History and obtained first class honours. Diggle then trained for the clergy and took holy orders. He was ordained in 1874, and was appointed curate at St Mark's Liverpool. Two years later he became curate of St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, where William Henry Fremantle was rector.
In 1878 he married Jane Wilkinson Macrae, from Aigburth, Liverpool. They had two sons and two daughters.
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