Background
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.
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 Street 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.