love for the poor that he was most widely recognised and esteemed". Abbot Palmer was buried in a vault beneath the chapter-room of the abbey. His remains were re-interred in the cloister garth a century later, alongside the remains of monks previously interred at Lulworth. The Lulworth monks were re-interred on either side of Abbot Palmer's grave: the brothers on his left and the priests on his right. On the death of Abbot Palmer, the sub-prior, Father Bernard Burder, was appointed provisional superior and was elected as second abbot in 1853. Burder was a grandson of George Burder, a non-conformist divine who had been one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Religious Tract Society and the London Missionary Society, and editor of the Evangelical Magazine. His father, Henry Forster Burder was also a non-conformist minister and had been a co-founder of the Congregational Union. Bernard Burder himself was a somewhat changeable character and his tenure as abbot proved to be unsettled. Against the non-conformity of his family background, he initially converted to the Anglican faith, into which he was ordained as a clergyman, serving as curate at Babbacombe, Devon, and then at Ruardean, Gloucestershire. He converted to Catholicism and in 1846 he presented himself at the guest house of Mount St Bernard, where he was accepted into the community by Abbot Palmer. Burder enjoyed a swift progression of office, being recorded as "Master of the Novices" and then sub-prior, before succeeding Abbot Palmer as superior six years later. Burder is described as having been, "a middle-aged man, rather stout, somewhat bald on the forehead, and about the ordinary height. He possesses a fine, full, clear voice, and a distinct enunciation". Abbot Burder came to the opinion that the rigorous Trappist life was too hard for Englishmen and made controversial plans for separating the monastery from the Trappist General Chapter and affiliating it to the Benedictines. In addition, many of the monastic community had become profoundly disturbed by the way in which a nearby boys' reformatory, begun by the abbot in 1856, had begun to affect the life of the monastery. The outcome was inevitable and the abbot resigned his office in 1858, following an enquiry by papal commission. After several attempts to join other monastic communities and spells as a private chaplain, Bernard Burder died at Lulworth Castle in September 1881. In 1859, Father Bartholemew