Henry Hearsey


Henry William Moorcroft Hearsey OBE was archdeacon of the Riviera from 1972 to 1976.
Hearsey was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford and ordained in 1935. After curacies in West Southbourne and Bournemouth he was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1940 to 1949: he was mentioned in despatches in 1945. After that he served in Vienna, Gibraltar, Nice and Cannes.