Morton Peto
British politician and railway contractor (1809–89) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 than 20 years, a Member of Parliament (MP). A partner in the firm of Grissell and Peto, he managed construction firms that built many of London's major buildings and monuments, including the Reform Club, The Lyceum Theatre, Nelson's Column and the replacement Houses of Parliament - commissions which brought him great wealth.[1] The scale of his operations, and that of the workforces needed to undertake them, made him the world's largest employer.[2]
Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bt | |
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Born | 4 August 1809 Woking, Surrey, England |
Died | 13 November 1889(1889-11-13) (aged 80) |
Nationality | English |
Occupation | Civil engineering contractor |
Spouse(s) | Mary Grissell (four children) Sarah Ainsworth Kelsall (11 children) |
Children | 15 |
As a partner in Peto and Betts, he then became one of the major contractors in the building of the rapidly expanding railways of the time. Along with a small group of other Master Builders in London he is credited as a founding member of the Chartered Institute of Building in 1834.[3]