Kenneth Pillar

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Kenneth Harold Pillar (10 October 1924{{snd}}21 February 2011) was the Bishop of Hertford from 1982 until 1989.[http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='Ramsey/4-287/1963/46/262,%20269') National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Pillar was born on 10 October 1924{{Who's Who | title=Pillar, Kenneth Harold | id= U30893 }} and educated at Devonport High School for Boys and Queens' College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate in Childwall.Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009, Lambeth, Church House Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7151-1030-0}} He had been made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1950 (4 June){{Church Times | title = Ordinations at Trinity | archive = 1950_06_09_437 | issue = 4557 | date = 9 June 1950 | page = 437 | accessed = 13 June 2019 }} and ordained priest the Trinity Sunday following (20 May 1951) — both times by Clifford Martin, Bishop of Liverpool{{Church Times | title = Trinity Ordinations | archive = 1951_05_25_357 | issue = 4607 | date = 25 May 1951 | page = 357 | accessed = 13 June 2019 }} After his title, he was chaplain of Lee Abbey and then vicar of St Paul's Beckenham. He then held further incumbencies at Canterbury and Waltham Abbey before becoming a bishop.The Times, 2 December 1981, p. 12., Latest appointments He was consecrated a bishop on 2 February 1982, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.{{Church Times | title = picture caption | archive = 1982_02_05_001 | issue = 6208 | date = 5 February 1982 | page = 1 | accessed = 13 June 2019 }} In retirement he was an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Sheffield.