(19 November 1910 – 1 June 1954) was an Australian paleontologist, who later retrained as a doctor and was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps.
in 1935 and after a year she left the University of Western Australia to work with A.G. Brighton at the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge.
[3] In 1935 Prendergast published work from her honours describing and illustrating 12 fossil genera, one of which was new as well as 10 species of which 4 were new.
[3] In 1946 she was assigned as Resident Medical Officer (RMO) to the Black Watch Regiment, this time with the rank of Major.
[1] At her funeral the song 'Australian Ladies' was played as her coffin was carried by members of the Black Watch regiment.