Simone Prendergast
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Dame Simone Ruth Prendergast DBE DL JP (née Laski; 2 July 1930 – 11 August 2012) was created a member of the UK's Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions' Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal which reviews cases of malfeasance and/or misconduct against British solicitors.
She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her political and public service.
Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade[]
She was the Head and later a Patron of the UK Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade.[citation needed]
Personal life & death[]
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Prendergast was born 2 July 1930 in London to Norman and Elaine (née Marks) Laski. Her maternal grandfather, Michael Marks, was a co-founder of Marks & Spencer. She married Christopher Anthony Prendergast in 1959; he died in 1998. She had one sister, Mrs Ann Esther Susman.[citation needed]
Dame Simone Prendergast died at the age of 82 on 11 August 2012.
Legacy[]
The Simone Prendergast Charitable Trust was established in her honour.
- English Jews
- English people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
- English legal professionals
- English philanthropists
- English justices of the peace
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Deputy Lieutenants of Greater London
- 1930 births
- 2012 deaths
- 20th-century British philanthropists
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