biographies

Prendergast, James Joseph (1858 - 1917)

M.D.(R.U.I), M.R.C.S. (Eng)

Born
21 April 1858
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
1917
Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Medical Practitioner

Details

Transcription of item written by Dr Colin Macdonald and published in "The Book of Remembrance", The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1956.


JAMES JOSEPH PRENDERGAST
(1892 - 1895)

James Prendergast, son of James Joseph Prendergast and Mary Coglan, was born in Bourke Street, Melbourne, on 21st April 1858, at the Assembly Hotel of which his father was the licensee. He went to Britain for his medical education, being one time a student at Guy’s Hospital, and in 1884 gained the M.D. Royal University of Ireland as well as the M.R.C.S. Eng., proceeding M.D. (Melb.) ad eundem Gradum in 1886.

He returned to Melbourne in 1885 and was appointed to the Women’s Staff in 1892 when his address was 24 Collins Street. His term at the Hospital lasted only three years and later Prendergast went to Tasmania, there practising on the West Coast, mainly at Tullah - a mining town now extinct - and Strahan, where he was the Port Medical Officer.

Subsequently he was in Western Australia for a short period before returning to Melbourne where he died at Moonee Ponds in 1917, leaving no family.

Archival/Heritage Resources

Royal Women's Hospital Archives

  • Book of Remembrance, 1956 - 1975; Royal Women's Hospital Archives [ Details... ].

Prepared by: Robyn Waymouth

Created: 1 August 2006, Last modified: 26 November 2006