Sir Reginald Charles Halse CMG

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, KBE

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 (16 June 1881 – 9 August 1962) was the Bishop of Riverina from 1925 to 1943 and then Archbishop of Brisbane

Anglican Diocese of Brisbane

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 until his death in 1962.

Halse was educated at St Paul’s School, London and Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College, Oxford

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. He was ordained in 1906 and was an assistant priest

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 at St Saviour’s Poplar

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 and then priest in charge

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 of St Nicholas' Blackwall

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. He then emigrated to Australia

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 and was Warden of the Brotherhood of St Barnabas and then headmaster

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 of All Souls' School, Charters Towers, Queensland

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 until his ordination to the episcopate. He was translated

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to Brisbane in 1943 and knighted in 1962. He died in office on 9 August 1962.