Superiors
- John Bede Polding (later archbishop) (1805–1819)
- Prior/Abbot Edmund Ford (1894–1906)
- Abbot Cuthbert Butler (1906–1922)
- Abbot Leander Ramsay (1922–1929)
- Abbot John Chapman (1929–1933)
- Abbot Bruno Hicks (1933–1938)
- Abbot Sigebert Trafford (1938–1946)
- Abbot (later Bishop) Christopher Butler (1946–1966)
- Abbot Wilfrid Passmore (1966–1974)
- Abbot John Roberts (1974–1990)
- Abbot Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard (1990–1998)
- Abbot Richard Yeo (1998–2006)
- Abbot Aidan Bellenger (2006–present)
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Famous quotes containing the word superiors:
“It would be ... better to be judged by one’s superiors than by one’s peers. ...In a trial before his superiors, any criminal would stand a chance of justice.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)