Sir Reginald Charles Halse KBE CMG [1] (16 June 1881 – 9 August 1962) was the Bishop of Riverina from 1925 [2] to 1943 and then Archbishop of Brisbane until his death in 1962. [3]
Halse was educated at St Paul's School, London and Brasenose College, Oxford. [4] He was ordained in 1906 and was an assistant priest at St Saviour's Poplar [5] and then priest in charge of St Nicholas' Blackwall. He then emigrated to Australia and was Warden of the Brotherhood of St Barnabas [6] and then headmaster of All Souls' School, Charters Towers, Queensland until his ordination to the episcopate. [7] He was translated to Brisbane in 1943 [8] and knighted in 1962. He died in office on 9 August 1962. [9]
References
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- ^ Details of latter career
- ^ "New Australian Bishop", The Times, 22 August 1925, p10.
- ^ List of archbishops Archived 19 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Who was Who, 1897–1990 (London, A & C Black, 1991), ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ Church history
- ^ Rayner, K., "Halse, Sir Reginald Charles (1881–1962)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 23 October 2022
- ^ In a Strange Land: A History of the Anglican Diocese of Riverina, L. Clyde, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne: 1979, ISBN 0-7256-0217-1
- ^ "New Archbishop of Brisbane", The Times, 20 November 1943, p3.
- ^ "Obituary: Archbishop of Brisbane", The Times, 10 August 1962, p11.
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- 1881 births
- People educated at St Paul's School, London
- Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Anglican bishops of Riverina
- 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia
- 20th-century Anglican archbishops
- Anglican archbishops of Brisbane
- Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
- 1962 deaths