Kenneth Herbert "Ken" Short AO (6 July 1927 - 19 Oct. 2014) was an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney.After studying at Trinity Grammar School, New South Wales and Moore Theological College he was ordained in 1952. He was minister in charge of Pittwater and then a Church Mission Society missionary in Tanzania from 1955 to 1964. On his return to Australia he was secretary to the Church Mission Society branch in New South Wales until 1971 and rector of St Michael’s Vacluse until his ordination to the episcopate in 1975. He was Bishop of Wollongong with the additional positions of Bishop of Parramatta, Archdeacon of Camden (1975–79) and Dean of Sydney (1989–92). He served as the last Chaplain General (Major General) in the Australian Army and as the first Bishop to the Defence Force.