Men-at-the-Bar/Prendergast, Sir James

by Joseph Foster

Prendergast, Sir James, B.A., Queen's Coll., Camb., 1849, chief justice of supreme court of New Zealand since 1875, sometime administrator of the government, admitted to the bar of New Zealand 1862, attorney-general 1865-75, knighted 10 Nov., 1881, a student of the Middle Temple 24 May, 1849, called to the bar 30 April, 1856 (3rd son of Michael Prendergast, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Q.C.); born , 1828; married , .

Wellington, New Zealand.