Henry Hearsey

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]

References

1. "Obituary: Lt.-Col. H. H. Y. Hearsey". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 3 May 1930. p. 14.
2. Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-–1969
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory (1938). p596: Oxford, OUP
4. London Gazette
5. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980–1982 p452 Oxford, OUP, 1983 ISBN 0-19-200010-1
6. "No. 43200". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1963. p. 20.
7. "Deaths". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 24 June 1982. p. 24.