John Peden (politician)
Sir John Beverley Peden KCMG KC (25 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 fello
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John Peden (politician)
Sir John Beverley Peden KCMG KC (25 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 fello
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Sir John Beverley Peden KCMG K ...... en died in Paddington in 1946.
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1946-04-22
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1917-07-17
1929-02-05
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1871-04-25
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1946-05-31
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Member of theLegislative Council of New South Wales
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President of the Legislative Council
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Barbara Constance Wyburn Peden
Margaret Elizabeth Maynard Peden
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(The Honourable)
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Church of England
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Margaret Ethel Maynard
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Challis Professor of Law at the University of Sydney
Dean of the Sydney Law School
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Sir John Beverley Peden KCMG K ...... the first elected by his fello
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John Peden (politician)
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John Peden
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Peden
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