Brian Halfpenny

Brian Norman Halfpenny, CB, QHC, FRSA (born 7 June 1936) is a British Anglican priest and retired 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]

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.
Military offices
Preceded by
Glyndwr Renowden
Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force
1988 – 1991
Succeeded by
Brian Lucas
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