Robert Prendergast
Admiral Sir Robert John Prendergast KCB (9 July 1864 – 14 May 1946) was a Royal Navy officer.The son of a surgeon-general occupying Ardfinnan Castle in Ireland, Prendergast entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet in 1877.Following retirement, Prendergast moved to Eastbourne, where he lived at Meads House and his Irish home at Ardfinnan Castle was sold out of the family.By 1946 he was senile and developed a bladder infection, for which he was treated by society doctor and suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams.His nurse, Anne Masters, later told police, "I am quite convinced that the injections of morphia hastened Sir Prendergast's [sic] death".