Timothy Edward McGrath (1881–1977) was an Australian Catholic priest and with Eileen O'Connor the founder of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor religious order.
McGrath was born in Bungeet near Benalla in north-east Victoria in 1881 to a poor rural family of Irish descent.
[2] He met a young woman, Eileen O'Connor, who was severely physically disabled by spinal problems, and was deeply impressed with her holiness.
Following allegations of scandal, McGrath's superiors at the Sacred Heart Monastery, Kensington, ordered him to break off contact with O'Connor.
On 28 September, near Wailly-Beaucamp in northern France, he went forward under heavy fire to rescue a wounded officer in no-man's-land.