George Tyrrell (1861-1909) was a Jesuit priest (until his expulsion) and a Modernist theologian and scholar. His attempts to evolve and adapt Catholic teaching in the context of modern ideas made him a key figure in the Modernist controversy within the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th century. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1879. Joining the Jesuits in 1880, Tyrrell was ordained to the priesthood in 1891. Tyrell was expelled from the Jesuit order in 1906 and suspended from the sacraments the following year. He was given extreme unction on his deathbed in 1909, but was denied burial in a Catholic cemetery. His works include: Nova et Vetera (1897), Hard Sayings (1898), The Faith of the Millions: A Selection of Past Essays (1901), A Much Abused Letter (1906), Medievalism (1908) and Christianity at the Cross-Roads (1909).