Cornelius Keogh

Father Cornelius Brendan (Con) Keogh OAM, (13 July 1921 – 24 November 2011) was an Australian Roman Catholic priest who founded the International Community Mental Health Movement GROW.

Keogh entered the seminary in Springwood, New South Wales, at 18 years of age.

In 1954, Keogh began to suffer mental illness, and over the next few years he underwent episodes of hospitalisation for his condition.

During 1957, whilst he was recovering from one such episode, he began attending meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, because there was at that stage no other support group available.

Along with others who were also recovering from mental illness, Keogh began to develop the programme material and the structured network of support groups which became the GROW organisation.