Ken Pillar

Kenneth Harold Pillar (10 October 1924 – 21 February 2011) was the Bishop of Hertford from 1982 until 1989.

Pillar was born on 10 October 1924 and educated at Devonport High School for Boys and Queens' College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate in Childwall. After this 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. In retirement he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Sheffield.