Harry Viener

Who was Harry Viener?

The Venerable Harry Dan Leigh Viener CBE,

UCd’I, MA, was an eminent Anglican Chaplain in the first half of the 20th century.

Born in Blackpool on 26 December 1868, he was educated at Malvern College and St John's College, Oxford. He was a Schoolmaster and Private Tutor from 1892 to 1899 when he was ordained a Deacon into the Church of England; and Priest the following year. After a curacy at St Peter’s, Walsall he was a naval chaplain and instructor from 1901 until 1918 when he joined the fledgling RAF Chaplaincy Service as its Archdeacon. An Honorary Chaplain to the King he was Rector of Chawton from 1927 until his retirement in 1934 and died on 7 May 1947.