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Kenneth Reardon

Anglican dean

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ17051902 ↗
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Kenneth Nash Reardon was Dean of Hobart from 1984 to 1992.

He was educated at the University of Tasmania; and ordained in 1957. He began his career with a curacy in Chigwell. He Rector of Cressy from 1964 to 1966; Director of Promotion for the Diocese of Bathurst from 1966 to 1971; Director of Education for the Diocese of Wellington from 1971 to 1974 and Director of Education for the Diocese of Brisbane from 1975 until his appointment as Dean. He was briefly Principal of St John's College, Morpeth in 1993–94.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kenneth Reardon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.