Henry William Moorcroft Hearsey OBE (23 September 1906 – 7 June 1982) was archdeacon of the Riviera from 1972 to 1976.
His great uncle was Lieutenant-General Sir John Bennet Hearsey.
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.
[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.