Galpin was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1977 for his services to the newspaper industry. As General Manager (South) and a Director of the Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers, Galpin was responsible for introducing web offset printing to the Portsmouth Evening News and managing the newspaper’s move to its Hilsea location in 1969. This made the newspaper the first newspaper in the world with a circulation of over 100,000 copies to use computerised printing technology and colour photocomposition.
