Jack Peden

{{Short description|Irish footballer (1863–1944)}}

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| name = John Peden

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| fullname = John Peden

| birth_date = {{birth date|1863|7|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Belfast, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1944|9|15|1863|7|12|df=y}}

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| position = Outside left

| youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 =

| years1 = 1886–1893 |clubs1 = Linfield |caps1 = |goals1 =

| years2 = 1893–1894 |clubs2 = Newton Heath |caps2 = 28 |goals2 = 7

| years3 = 1894–1895 |clubs3 = Sheffield United |caps3 = 8 |goals3 = 0

| years4 = 1895–1898 |clubs4 = Distillery |caps4 = |goals4 =

| years5 = 1898–? |clubs5 = Linfield |caps5 = |goals5 =

| nationalyears1 = 1887–1899 |nationalteam1 = Ireland |nationalcaps1 = 24 |nationalgoals1 = 7

| nationalyears2 = |nationalteam2 = Irish League XI |nationalcaps2 = 4 |nationalgoals2 = ?

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John Peden (12 July 1863 – 15 September 1944){{cite news |first=Mark |last=Simpson |title=Appeal over Belfast Man Utd player John Peden's grave |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26177699 |work=BBC News |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=13 February 2014 |accessdate=17 February 2014 }}{{cite book |last1=Joyce |first1=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |year=2004 |publisher=Tony Brown |location=Nottingham |isbn=1899468676 |page=206 }} was an Irish footballer who played as an outside left for Newton Heath and Sheffield United in the 1890s. He made 24 appearances and scored seven goals for Ireland in a 12-year international career,{{NFT player|pid=38131}} interrupted by a two-year gap while he played in England (England-based players were not selected for the Ireland national team until 1899).{{cite book |last1=Dykes |first1=Garth |title=The United Alphabet: A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United F.C. |publisher=ACL & Polar Publishing (UK) |location=Leicester |year=1994 |isbn=0-9514862-6-8 |page=301 }}

Born in Belfast, Peden began his career with Linfield as a 21-year-old in 1886. He signed for Newton Heath in February 1893, but did not make his debut for the Manchester side until the opening game of the 1893–94 season against Burnley on 2 September 1893. Peden left the Heathens at the end of the season to join Sheffield United, but he could not hold down a first-team place with the Yorkshire side, and returned to Ireland to play for Distillery. He finally returned to Linfield in 1898 before retiring at the end of the 1898–99 season.