Brian Halfpenny

English Anglican priest (1936–2024)

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Brian Norman Halfpenny, CB, QHC, FRSA (7 June 1936 – 2 May 2024) was a British Anglican priest and military chaplain. From 1988 to 1991, he served as Chaplain-in-Chief, and thereby head of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch, and Archdeacon for the Royal Air Force.[1]

Halfpenny was educated at George Dixon Grammar School, Birmingham; St John's College, Oxford; and Wells Theological College. After a curacy in Melksham he served the RAF from 1965[2] to 1991. He was Team Rector of Redditch from 1991 to 2001.[3]

Halfpenny died on 2 May 2024, at the age of 87.[4]

References

  1. ^ ‘HALFPENNY, Ven. Brian Norman’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 20 May 2017
  2. ^ London Gazette 23 November 1965
  3. ^ "Brian Norman Halfpenny". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Deaths". Church Times. 17 May 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
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