Henry Hearsey

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Ven. Henry William Moorcroft Hearsey OBE (23 September 1906 – 7 June 1982) was archdeacon of the Riviera from 1972 to 1976.

Hearsey was born in Zomba, Nyasaland (now Malawi), to Lt.-Col. Herbert Hyde Young Hearsey, the Principal Medical Officer of Nyasaland, and Maggie Marie Beales. His great uncle was Lieutenant-General Sir John Bennet Hearsey.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Lt.-Col. H. H. Y. Hearsey |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date= 3 May 1930|page=14 }}Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-–1969 He was educated at Pembroke College, OxfordCrockford's Clerical Directory (1938). p596: Oxford, OUP and ordained in 1935. After curacies in West Southbourne and Bournemouth, he was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1940[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34992/page/6561/data.pdf London Gazette] to 1949: he was mentioned in despatches in 1945. After that he served in Vienna, Gibraltar, Nice and Cannes.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980–1982 p452 Oxford, OUP, 1983 {{ISBN|0-19-200010-1}}

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1964 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |date=31 December 1963 |issue= 43200| page= 20|endpage= |supp=y}}

Hearsey died at the Anglo-American Hospital in Cannes and donated his body for scientific research.{{cite news |title= Deaths |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date=24 June 1982 |page= 24}}