Robert Prendergast

Robert Prendergast

Admiral Sir Robert John Prendergast KCB (9 July 1864–14 May 1946) was a British Royal Navy officer.

Career

Prendergast entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet in 1877. He served in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882 as a Midshipman aboard the broadside ironclad HMS "Achilles". In 1885 he transferred to the gunboat HMS "Grappler" at Gibraltar. He was promoted Lieutenant in June 1877 and joined the corvette HMS "Volage" in the Training Squadron in 1888. In 1889 he went to HMS "Excellent" to train as a gunnery officer and was then posted to the battleship HMS "Collingwood" and then to the frigate HMS "Raleigh", flagship of the Training Squadron.

In 1899 he was promoted Commander and posted to HMS "Northampton", a seagoing training ships for boys. In 1901 he was posted to HMS "Excellent", where he was promoted Captain. In 1904 he went to the Naval Ordnance Department at the Admiralty, and then commanded in succession the cruisers HMS "Essex" and HMS "Carnarvon" and the battleship HMS "Implacable". In 1911 he was appointed Captain-Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard.

In November 1914 he was promoted Rear-Admiral, but remained at Sheerness. In May 1916 he was appointed Rear-Admiral Commanding Scapa Flow, hoisting his flag in the depot ship HMS "Imperieuse" and then the dockyard repair ship HMS "Victorious". In March 1919 he was appointed Rear-Admiral Commanding Orkneys and Shetlands. He was promoted Vice-Admiral later that year and appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1920 New Year Honours, [LondonGazette |issue=31712 |date=30 December 1919 |startpage=3 |supp=yes] having been appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) the previous year. He retired in February 1920 when Scapa Flow was reduced to a peace footing, and was promoted Admiral on the retired list in 1924.

Death

Prendergast was treated for a bladder infection in 1946 by suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams. Adams would visit twice a day and prescribed morphine. On the morning of 14 May 1946, Prendergast slipped into a coma and died at 7.30 p.m. that evening. Adams certified the death as a) uraemia and b) chronic nephritis. His nurse, Anne Masters, later told police, "I am quite convinced that the injections of morphia hastened Sir Prendergast's [sic] death". [Cullen, p. 212] Adams was tried for the murder of Edith Alice Morrell in 1957 but acquitted, though police suspected him of a total of 163 murders. [Cullen, p. 636]

Footnotes

ources

*Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9

References

*Obituary, "The Times", 16 May 1946


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