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See also:PETO, See also:SIR See also:SAMUEL See also:MORTON, See also:BART . (1809–1889), See also:English contractor, was See also:born at See also:Woking, See also:Surrey, on the 4th of See also:August 1809, and was at an See also:early See also:age apprenticed to his See also:uncle, a See also:London builder, who on his See also:death in 1830 bequeathed the business to Peto and another See also:nephew, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Grissell. The See also:partnership between Peto and Grissell lasted till 1846, amongst the many London buildings erected by the See also:firm being the Reform See also:Club, the See also:Lyceum and St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's theatres, and the See also:Nelson See also:column. Peto afterwards entered into partnership with See also:Edward See also:Ladd Betts (1815–1872), and between 1846 and 1872 Messrs Peto & Betts carried out many large railway contracts at See also:home and abroad, notably the more important portions of the See also:South-Eastern and of the London See also:Chatham & See also:Dover lines, and, in See also:conjunction with Thomas See also:Brassey, the See also:Grand See also:Trunk railway of See also:Canada, and the London Tilbury & Southend railway. In 1854–1855 Peto and Brassey constructed a railway in the See also:Crimea between Balaclava and the See also:British entrenchments before Sebastopol, charging the British See also:government only the actual out-of-See also:pocket expenses, and for his services in this See also:matter Peto was in 1855 made a See also:baronet. Peto entered See also:parliament as a Liberal in 1847, and, with a few years' See also:interval, continued there till 1868, when, his firm having been compelled to suspend See also:payment in the See also:financial crisis of 1866, he was forced to resign his seat, though both Mr Disraeli and Mr See also:Gladstone publicly eulogized his See also:personal See also:character. He died on the 13th of See also:November 1889.
End of Article: PETO, SIR SAMUEL MORTON, BART
Additional information and Comments
As a local historian in Folkestone I am puzzled as to which 'important portion' of the South Eastern line was contracted to Samuel Peto as most if not all sources agree that he did not enter the railway construction business until 1846. The line through Folkestone to Dover had been completed and opened by 1844. One source says that he constructed the Foord Viaduct at Folkestone but again this was designed and the construction of which I understand was supervised by William Cubitt engineer to the South Eastern Railway.
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