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    Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet (4 August 1809 – 13 November 1889) was an English entrepreneur, civil engineer and railway developer, and, for more...
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  • Samuel Peto can refer to: Samuel Petto (c.1624-1711), English Puritan clergyman Samuel Morton Peto (1809-1889), English entrepreneur, civil engineer and...
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    politician Samuel Morton Peto. He was a railway contractor and also represented Norwich, Finsbury and Bristol in the House of Commons. The Peto baronetcy...
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    lending to the LCDR and it became insolvent. In December 1863 Samuel Morton Peto, a partner in Peto and Betts, had joined the board of the LCDR as financial...
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  • and Ann Betts, née Peto. Edward was in business Ann's brother, the railway entrepreneur Samuel Morton Peto, the pair operating as Peto and Betts until the...
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  • between Samuel Morton Peto, Thomas Brassey and Edward Betts Peto and Betts, a civil engineering partnership formed in 1848 between Morton Peto and Edward...
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    by the Commissioners in 1842 and sold to the railway developer Sir Samuel Morton Peto. The Broads have been a boating holiday destination since the late...
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  • ESR at Haddiscoe, with additional dock branches at Yarmouth. Sir Samuel Morton Peto had business interests in Lowestoft. He believed that the ESR would...
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    Peto, Brassey and Betts was a civil engineering partnership between Samuel Morton Peto, Thomas Brassey and Edward Betts. They built a supply and casualty...
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  • Rosemary Peto (1916–1998), English artist Samuel Petto (c.1624-1711), English Puritan clergyman Samuel Morton Peto (1809–1889), English construction entrepreneur...
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    Somerleyton Hall and Park were bought by the prosperous entrepreneur and MP Samuel Morton Peto. For the next seven years he carried out extensive rebuilding, creating...
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    rebuilt as a model village in the 19th century at the direction of Samuel Morton Peto. The parish was combined with Herringfleet and Ashby to create the...
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    Nepal in the United Kingdom. The building was erected in 1863-65 for Samuel Morton Peto by the architect James Murray and is a Grade II listed building. In...
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  • Grissell and Peto was a civil engineering partnership between Thomas Grissell and his cousin Morton Peto that built many major buildings and monuments...
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    Ainsworth Peto was born in London on 11 July 1854. He was the son of a prosperous builder, engineer and railway-contractor, Samuel Morton Peto, of Somerleyton...
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  • Henry Peto (1780–1830) was a British building contractor and uncle to Thomas Grissell (1801–1874) and Morton Peto. Henry Peto was in partnership with...
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    and without any contract by Peto, Brassey and Betts, a partnership of English railway contractors led by Samuel Morton Peto. Within three weeks of the...
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    Coalbrookdale Company and the bridge was built by Thomas Brassey, Samuel Morton Peto and Edward Betts. Its design is almost identical to the Albert Edward...
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    kiln. Most of its remaining buildings were demolished in 1955. Sir Samuel Morton Peto's arrival in 19th-century Lowestoft brought a change in the town's...
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    contractors Samuel Morton Peto and Thomas Grissell was dissolved in 1846, and so Betts worked with Peto on parts of the Great Northern Railway. In 1848, Peto and...
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    preaching, a newsletter and charity work. The construction tycoon Sir Samuel Morton Peto encouraged religious services for his workforce, as well as providing...
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    Crimean Central Railway, built by the contractors Thomas Brassey and Samuel Morton Peto, which had been completed at the end of March 1855 was now in use...
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    station. The original single track bridge was commissioned by Sir Samuel Morton Peto in the 1840s to allow the passage of wherry boats, which were too...
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     305–6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bart, 1809 - 1889 by the Revd. Dr. Edward C. Brooks, first chapter...
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  • Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1847–1853, is born (d. 1883). August 4 – Samuel Morton Peto, English railway contractor (d. 1889). October 10 - Nathaniel Worsdell...
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    Reedham. The line from Reedham to Lowestoft was added in 1847 by Samuel Morton Peto as part of the Norfolk Railway.[citation needed] Finally, the northern...
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  • engineer of the Great Western Railway 1837–1864 (b. 1816). November 13 – Samuel Morton Peto, English railway contractor (b. 1809). November 24 – George H. Pendleton...
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    the navigation in 1842 and sold it to the railway contractor Sir Samuel Morton Peto. With the decline in the use of wherries for commercial trade on the...
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    Allied troops conducting the siege, including an outbreak of cholera, Samuel Morton Peto and his partners built the Grand Crimean Central Railway, which was...
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    Railway for Sir Samuel Morton Peto. In 1842 Charles set up his own contracting business in Norwich and progressed to rebuilding Peto's house, Somerleyton...
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