Reginald Halse

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.