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Apr 25, 1871 Randwick, New South Wales, Australia Died on 31 May 1946 (aged 75)
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- Sir John Beverley Peden (26 April 1871 – 31 May 1946) was an Australian jurist and politician.
- Born in Randwick to farmer Magnus Jackson Peden, a mayor of Randwick, and Elizabeth Neathway Brown, he attended public school at Bega before studying at Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1892 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1898.
- He was an assistant lecturer in Latin at the university from 1896 to 1898, when he was called to the bar.
- He lectured in law from 1903 and became a professor and faculty Dean in 1910.
- Appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Nationalist in 1917, from 1929 to 1946 he was President of the Council; he was both the last President appointed directly by the governor, and the first elected by his fellow councillors.
- Peden died in Paddington in 1946.
