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.[1][2] He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford[3] and ordained in 1935. After curacies in West Southbourne and Bournemouth, he was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1940[4] to 1949: he was mentioned in despatches in 1945. After that he served in Vienna, Gibraltar, Nice and Cannes.[5]
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1964 New Year Honours.[6]
Hearsey died at the Anglo-American Hospital in Cannes and donated his body for scientific research.[7]