Marie-Gabriel Tissot (1886 - 1983), in 1937 become the first Abbot of Quarr Abbey, England in modern times.
Tissot was born in France in 1886, and after studies in the seminary of Saint-Sulpice, in 1906 he entered the community of Solesmes Abbey, then living in exile at Appuldurcombe on the Isle of Wight, England.
In these years he also taught patristics at the Benedictine house of studies at Sant’Anselmo on the Aventine.
The following year he became the Abbot of Quarr[1] when the house became an independent abbey in its own right.
In 1964 he retired and returned to live at Solesmes, where after many years of tranquil life he died suddenly on 21 September 1983.