Abbot Gerard Parker Lair

Abbot Gerard Parker Lair, OSB

The year 1995 saw the end of the twenty year long tenure of Abbot Brian Clarke who, by the statutes of the Congregation then in force, resigned upon reaching the age of sixty-five. The community, now numbering sixty-one, chose as its eighth abbot, Gerard Lair on 27 June 1995. Abbot Gerard, the same year, appointed Father Giles Hayes to serve a second term as headmaster of Delbarton School.