Michael Prendergast

Michael George Prendergast (October 1764 – 18 February 1834) was an Irish soldier, merchant, and member of parliament.

A son of Miles Prendergast of County Galway, in 1786 he was commissioned as an Ensign into the East India Company's Madras Army, but resigned his commission in 1789. Becoming a private merchant in Dacca and Lucknow, he was appointed as inspector of indigo in 1807, but by 1809 was in England. He had properties in Ireland, but after his return to the British Isles he probably lived mostly in Westminster. Their son Wellesley Bowes Louis Henry Prendergast was born in 1817, and in 1866 he married Josephine Priscilla Polegay in Inniscarra, Cork. He died on 8 August 1868 in Listerlin, where he was not the most popular of landlords. Another son, George Maurice Prendergast, was born in 1818 in Dublin. A daughter, Rosetta Louisa was born in 1824 in Essendon, Hertfordshire, and died aged 18 in Brighton in May 1843.