See also:BART See also:SIR See also:SAMUEL See also:MORTON See also:PETO
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(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 See also: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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He died on the 13th of See also:November 1889
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