{{Short description|English billiards player (1864–1934)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Diggle [[File:Billiards match - Spencer Diggle.jpg|thumb|right|A billiards match between Diggle and John Roberts Jr.]] '''Edward Diggle''' (1864–1934) was an English billiards player,<ref name="Clare">{{cite web|last1=Clare|first1=Norman|title=E. Diggle PAST MASTERS NO. 12 - March 1984|url=http://www.snookerheritage.co.uk/normans-articles/past-masters/e-diggle/|website=Billiard and Snooker Heritage Collection|publisher=E.A. Clare & Son|accessdate=11 February 2016}}</ref> known as "The Mechanical Methodical Mancunian".
Diggle was a protégé of John Roberts Jr., and became his regular practice partner. He is described by cue sports historian Clive Everton as "a languid, wry man with a casual, half upright [playing] style with both legs inelegantly bent."<ref name="HBIL" />{{rp|43}} In 1895, Diggle set the record for the break on a standard billiard table when he compiled a 985 against Roberts.<ref name="HBIL">{{cite book|last=Everton |first=Clive |date=2012 |title=A History of Billiards|publisher=englishbilliards.org |location=Malmesbury |isbn=978-0-9564054-5-6}}</ref>{{rp|36}} Willie Smith credited Diggle's {{Cuegloss|top-of-the-table play|top of the table}}, a method to increase {{Cuegloss|Break|breaks}}, as being an integral part of his own style.<ref name="WS1">{{cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Willie|title=Willie Smith – His Page|journal=The Burwat Billiard View|date=1930|issue=3|pages=6–7}}</ref>
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