Michael Brackenbury

{{Short description|English Anglican priest (1930–2022)}}

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Michael Palmer Brackenbury (6 July 1930 – 4 February 2022) was an English Anglican priest who served as Archdeacon of Lincoln from 1988 Church news The Times (London, England), Friday, November 20, 1987; pg. 17; Issue 62931 to 1995.‘BRACKENBURY, Ven. Michael Palmer’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2013; online edn, Dec 2013 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U8427, accessed 17 Oct 2014]

Brackenbury was born on 6 July 1930.[https://www.opencompany.co.uk/company/00097256/lincoln-diocesan-trust-and-board-of-finance-limited Open Company] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20141017125712/https://www.opencompany.co.uk/company/00097256/lincoln-diocesan-trust-and-board-of-finance-limited |date=2014-10-17 }} He was educated at Norwich School and Lincoln Theological College.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} He was a curate in South Ormsby from 1966 to 1969. After this he was Rector of Sudbrooke from 1969 to 1977; then Diocesan Director of ordinands from 1977 to 1987. From 1979 until 1995 he was a Canon and Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral.

Brackenbury died on 4 February 2022, at the age of 91.{{cite web |title=Brackenbury, Ven. Michael Palmer |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-8427?rskey=HlSx2u&result=43 |website=WHO WAS WHO 2022 |access-date=25 October 2022}}