| LC control no. | no 91012885 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Peto, S. Morton (Samuel Morton), Sir, 1809-1889 |
| Variant(s) | Peto, Samuel Morton, Sir, 1809-1889 Peto, Samuel Morton, Sir, bart., 1809-1889 Peto, S. M. (Samuel Morton), Sir, 1809-1889 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Birth date | 18090804 |
| Death date | 18891113 |
| Field of activity | Entrepreneurship Civil engineering Railroad engineering |
| Affiliation | Grissell and Peto (Firm) Peto and Betts (Firm) Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
| Profession or occupation | Businesspeople Legislators |
| Found in | His Taxation, 1866: t.p. (Sir S. Morton Peto, Bart., M.P. for Finsbury) Speech of Sir S. M. Peto, on asking leave to introduce the Nonconformists' Burial Act, February 19th, 1861 Observations on the Report of the Defence Commissioners, 1862: title page (Sir S. Morton Peto) LC in OCLC, 5-16-91 (hdg.: Peto, Samuel Morton, Sir, bart., 1809-1889; usage not shown) Wikipedia, November 1, 2013 (Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet (4 August 1809 - 13 November 1889) was an English entrepreneur, civil engineer and railway developer. A partner in the firm of Grissell and Peto, he managed construction firms that built many major buildings and monuments in London, including The Reform Club, The Lyceum, Nelson's Column and the new Houses of Parliament; which made him a millionaire. 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. Peto served for two decades as a Member of Parliament. He was elected a Liberal Member for Norwich in 1847 to 1854, for Finsbury from 1859 to 1865, and for Bristol from 1865 to 1868) |
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