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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.

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 to 1991. He was Team Rector of Redditch from 1991 to 2001.

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

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.

• 1936 births
• 2024 deaths
• Church of England priests
• 20th-century English Anglican priests
• 21st-century English Anglican priests
• Royal Air Force Chaplains-in-Chief
• People educated at George Dixon Academy
• Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
• Companions of the Order of the Bath
• Alumni of Wells Theological College