Aelred Sillem (29 October 1908 – 19 May 1994) was second abbot of Quarr Abbey, on the Isle of Wight, from 1964 to 1992.
[1] Sillem was educated at Haileybury and Magdalen College, Oxford, and received the habit at the Benedictine abbey of St Gregory, Downside, in 1929.
[1] He studied theology in Munich in the years 1931–1933 and then in 1934 asked to be transferred to Quarr Abbey, on the Isle of Wight.
He was ordained a priest at Quarr's mother abbey, Solesmes, in France, on 22 August 1937.
[2] He appears in Tony Hendra's autobiography, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul.