[3] He was consecrated a bishop at St Paul's Cathedral on 29 September 1891, by Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury.

[6] In 1898, he inherited the estate of his brother, Arthur Godolphin Yeatman-Biggs CB,[7] and (as heir of his maternal grandfather) assumed the additional name of Biggs by Royal licence dates 6 August 1898.

[10] He stayed in Coventry in July, 1917, and noted the influx of munitions workers including 7000 women working in one factory.

"[12] In 1918, he took on the task of reviving the Diocese of Coventry, during which time he came to national prominence when an unscrupulous adventurer accused him of influencing a vulnerable pensioner into leaving him her assets.

[citation needed] After Yeatman-Biggs's death, a bronze effigy of him was commissioned from Hamo Thornycroft,[14] and was the only artefact to survive more or less intact the bombing of Coventry Cathedral in 1940.