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	Lowestoft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the 19th century, the arrival of Sir Samuel Morton Peto brought about a huge change in Lowestoft's fortunes.
		Peto started by building a rail link between Lowestoft and Norwich, and links with other town soon followed.
		The composer Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft in 1913.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lo/Lowestoft.html (264 words)

	Sir Samuel Morton, Bart Peto - LoveToKnow 1911
		The partnership between Peto and Grissell lasted till 1846, amongst the many London buildings erected by the firm being the Reform Club, the Lyceum and St James's theatres, and the Nelson column.
		In1854-1855Peto and Brassey constructed a railway in the Crimea between Balaclava and the British entrenchments before Sebastopol, charging the British government only the actual out-of-pocket expenses, and for his services in this matter Peto was in 1855 made a baronet.
		Peto entered parliament as a Liberal in 1847, and, with a few years' interval, continued there till 1868, when, his firm having been compelled to suspend payment in the financial crisis of 1866, he was forced to resign his seat, though both Mr Disraeli and Mr Gladstone publicly eulogized his personal character.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Samuel_Morton,_Bart_Peto (742 words)

	Samuel Morton Peto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet (August 4, 1809 – November 13, 1889) was a Victorian entrepreneur in East Anglia, England.
		In 1854 Peto and Thomas Brassey constructed a railway in the Crimea between Balaklava and Sevastopol.
		Peto became a Liberal Member of Parliament for Norwich in 1847 to 1854, for Finsbury from 1859 to 1865, and for Bristol from 1865 to 1868.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Morton_Peto (351 words)

	Harold Peto and his Garden at Iford Manor
		Peto was born in 1854 and died in 1933, an exact contemporary of Gertrude Jekyll, who was a great admirer of his work.
		He was an architect, collector and connoisseur, born the eighth of 14 children of Sir Samuel Morton Peto.
		Throughout his life Peto's architecture was rooted in admiration of Renaissance Italy, where he travelled extensively, as well as elsewhere, and he also developed a growing interest in the link between house and garden.
	www.gardenstrusts.org.uk /Archive/Peto.html (966 words)

	Rail to the Rescue - Part 1
		Peto was an experienced railway contractor, responsible for organising railway construction, obtaining all the necessary materials and personnel - engineers, administrators, supervisors, and labour - at the right place and time and delivering the finished product within strict deadlines.
		This formidable grouping, known unsurprisingly as Peto, Betts & Brassey, had recently completed the Royal Danish Railway Jutland to Schleswig link in record time, and mid-November 1854 saw Samuel Peto in Copenhagen, to receive the Order of the Danebrog from King Frederick VII for his pains.
		The implication, unconscious or otherwise, was that a railway was desperately urgently needed to assure the supply of the Army,or it was in danger of perishing.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/crimean_war/118364/1 (527 words)

	LOWESTOFT HISTORY - SIR SAMUEL MORTON PETO - Joe Capp's Lowestoft - A Lowestoft photographer's website Lowestoft ...
		Samuel Morton Peto built Lowestoft harbour and railway in the 1840s.
		In 1843 Peto came to Lowestoft, and by 1847 had established a proper harbour and railway line so fish could be delivered alive to Manchester.
		Towards the end of his life Peto got badly into debt, (either his bank collapsed or his debtors didn't pay), and the worry affected his health.
	www.seelowestoft.com /peto.htm (333 words)

	Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
		Because of earlier restrictions on non-Anglican churches, and for reasons of economy, meeting-houses had formerly been hidden down back alleys and in upper rooms, but as their civil rights and social standing improved, Victorian Baptists, along with other Free Churches, wanted to be seen.
		The chapel was built "on spec" by Sir Samuel Morton Peto MP, one of the great railway contractors.
		Peto invited the Revd William Brock from Norwich to initiate the cause.
	www.bloomsbury.org.uk /history/01.html (250 words)

	DorsetLife On-Line Magazine
		The landowner in 1889 was Captain William Trevelyan Hody JP and Rev. Frederic Septimus Stockdale was rector.
		Sir Henry Peto (1840-1938), the son of the Victorian railway magnate, Sir Samuel Morton Peto, baronet and MP, bought Chedington Court and its estate in 1893.
		Sapper Walter Samuel Peto of the Royal Engineers was killed while on patrol in Salonika on 26 December 1917.
	www.dorsetlife.co.uk /articles/ArticlesDetail.asp?ID=551 (1444 words)

	Chapter 16. Hagmasters and After
		Peto (1809-1889) was the son of a farmer and, more importantly, nephew of a London builder who left him half his business when he was still young.
		Peto and Grissel bought the company, [165/166] built a railway to Reedham, channelled and dredged the cut across the beach, built quays, wharves, a fish market, a town.
		Peto spent a thousand pounds a year of his own money hiring preachers, not only to preach, but to teach them to read.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/work/sullivan/16.html (3543 words)

	Samuel Morton Peto (1809-1889) - Pioneers of Steam Locomotion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Samuel Morton Peto (1809-1889) - Pioneers of Steam Locomotion
		He served under an uncle and his cousin, Thomas Crissell, as a builder and in 1830 became a partner in the business for 16 years, during which period they carried out part of the Great Western Railway, and built the new Houses of Parliarnent, 1840-52, and Nelson's Column, 1843.
		From 1847-78 he served in Parliament as Liberal representative first for Norwich, then Finsbury and finally Bristol.
	www.geocities.com /steampioneer/frame/SMPeto.html (188 words)

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		Samuel Morton Peto had the foresight and enterprise to found what we now think of as modern Lowestoft.
		In 1844 Peto could afford a place called Somerleyton Hall, near Lowestoft, which he turned into a huge mansion for himself.
		Towards the end of his life Peto was afflicted with debt and the worry affected his health.
	members.lycos.co.uk /jwc/famouslocals.html (967 words)

	CHAPTER 57.
		Sir Morton Peto had promised to get his agent to look out for a suitable site, and he had also guaranteed substantial help to the Building Fund, which continued to grow, though not as rapidly as the young Pastor desired.
		Higgs was the builder of the Tabernacle, and it was a special cause of joy to many that the contract was secured by one of the Pastor’s own spiritual children, who afterwards became an honored deacon of the church, and one of the dearest personal friends and most generous helpers his minister ever had.
		Sir Morton Peto is the man who builds one chapel with the hope that it will be the seedling for another; and we will pretty soon try our hands at it.
	www.godrules.net /library/spurgeon/NEW8spurgeon_b27.htm (8156 words)

	LOWESTOFT LOCATIONS - Joe Capp's Lowestoft - A Lowestoft photographer's website Lowestoft Suffolk England local links ...
		He bought out the ruined canal operators and within ten years had developed a proper harbour, established a flourishing cattle trade with Holland and Denmark and turned the former marsh and scrubland south of the harbour into an elegant seaside resort.
		Morton Peto lived at Somerleyton Hall, a big Victorian mansion near Lowestoft, until his own bankruptcy in 1863 (not his fault, I think his bank collapsed).
		In the 1840s Charles Dickens came to stay with Sir Samuel Morton Peto at Somerleyton Hall, and the novel "David Copperfield" is set partly at Blundeston, an outlying village.
	www.seelowestoft.com /overview.htm (2176 words)

	Somerleyton
		Somerleyton Hall and Park were bought in 1843 by Sir Samuel Morton Peto who, for the next seven years, carried out extensive rebuilding.
		Paintings were specially commissioned for the house, and the gardens and grounds were completely redesigned.
		In 1863 the Somerleyton estate was sold to by Sir Francis Crossley of Halifax, Yorkshire who, like Peto, was a philanthropist, a manufacturer, and a Member of Parliament.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/so/somerleyton.html (242 words)

	Fine Art Gallery - Morton K. Peto - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His brother Harold Ainsworth Peto was an architect in Pinner, and by an amazing coincidence Harold was the architect for the London offices of victorian-paintings.com which were constructed in 1878.
		Eastcote House was also the home of Morton's father Sir Samuel Morton Peto who was made a Baronet at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, and who was one of the leading civil engineers in the Victorian era.
		In addition to being a Member of Parliament for Norwich, Sir Samuel was the builder of the famous Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London.
	www.fineartgalleryonline.com /artist_page.cfm?start=107 (213 words)

	BART SIR SAMUEL MORTON... - Online Information article about BART SIR SAMUEL MORTON...
		Ladd Betts (1815–1872), and between 1846 and 1872 Messrs Peto and Betts carried out many large railway contracts at See also:
		In 1854–1855 Peto and Brassey constructed a railway in the See also:
		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.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PER_PIG/PETO_SIR_SAMUEL_MORTON_BART.html (422 words)

	Samuel Morton Peto
		Peto helped considerably in the early planning stages of the Great Exhibition by offering a guarantee of £50,000 for the building.
		He was subsequently made one of the Royal Commissioners and advised on all financial matters.
		Peto's experience as head of a highly successful firm of building and railway contractors made him a well-qualified treasurer.
	www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/microsites/british_galleries/explore_exhibition/level3/ex03_l3_22.html (97 words)

	Harold Peto
		Harold Ainsworth Peto was the eighth child out of fourteen, born to Sir Samuel Morton Peto and his wife,
		Sir Samuel ran a building business left to him and a cousin by their uncle.
		Harold Peto wrote one book during his life, ‘The Boke of Iford’.
	www.greatbritishgardens.co.uk /harold_peto.htm (368 words)

	History of Oulton Broad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Samuel Morton Peto bought out the Lowestoft Navigation Company that built Lowestoft harbour after it went bust.
		Peto was responsible for introducing railways to Oulton Broad in the 1840s.
		Christopher Cockerell set up his first boat building company in Oulton Broad and had his workshop on Saltside Mutford bridge opposite the small roundabout.
	www.onesuffolk.co.uk /OultonBroadHeritageWalkProject/History (245 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Wherry Lines, East Anglia, UK
		A link from Reedham to Lowestoft was built three years later by Samuel Morton Peto, and finally a direct line from Brundall to Great Yarmouth was added by the Great Eastern Railway in 1882.
		The lines were generally very successful due to the presence of holiday resorts in both Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the changing tastes of the British public have seen reduced popularity for these local holiday destinations.
		The station lies near to the route of the Angles Way and is a short distance from Somerleyton Hall and Gardens, once home of Samuel Morton Peto - the man responsible for building the line between Reedham and Lowestoft.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A12218627 (2275 words)

	The Sunrise Coast - History & Heritage
		These are said to be the most haunted part of the town and can also be discovered by participating in The Lowestoft Guided Tours, which run from Easter to Halloween.
		Sir Samuel Morton Peto - Is responsible for much of the town's development and enhancement during the mid 19th Century.
		Embark on the Peto Trail (Leaflets are available from Lowestoft Tourist Information Centre) and travel around the various architectural sites, which were formally developed by him.
	www.visit-lowestoft.co.uk /subpages_transparency/heritage.htm (1099 words)

	Samuel Morton Peto \| THG Lexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Im Jahre 1846 nahm Peto sich Edward Betts als neuen Geschäftspartner.
		Gemeinsam mit Thomas Brassey erbaute Peto 1854 auf der Halbinsel Krim eine Eisenbahnverbindung von Balaklava nach Sewastopol.
		Für seine Verdienste um den Bahnbau wurde Peto in den Adelsstand erhoben.
	www.tomshardware.de /lexikon/Samuel_Morton_Peto (350 words)

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		Growth was further helped by the construction of a navigational link to Norwich, which saw a short success before going bankrupt ten years later.
		Lowestoft had been a spa and watering-place of sorts for some time, but Peto put it on the map for the first time as a resort of real importance.
		Morton Peto lived at Somerleyton Hall, a big Victorian mansion near Lowestoft until his own bankrupcy in 1863.
	members.lycos.co.uk /jwc/writtenhistory.html (1668 words)

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		Somerleyton was built 1844-51 by Sir Samuel Morton Peto, the railway contractor, builder and developer of Lowestoft.
		The building was designed by John Thomas (who had worked with Peto on the new Houses of Parliament) in the Jacobean style, incorporating the existing house.
		Sir Samuel Morton Peto, the developer of Lowestoft, built these model cottages for his estate workers.
	www.francisfrith.com /search/England/Suffolk/Somerleyton/memories (343 words)

	Lowestoft and North-east Suffolk - the Sunrise Coast
		Lowestoft had always had a fishing industry, boats being launched from the beach until the middle of the 19th century when the harbour was developed by Samuel Morton Peto.
		This was just in time for the boom in the industry with the demand for herring now able to be satisfied via the new distribution network of the railways, as well as the harbour opening up the potential for trade with the European continent.
		The developer of Lowestoft harbour Samuel Morton Peto rebuilt our local stately home, Somerleyton Hall, on the site of an earlier Jacobean house in the mid 19th century.
	www.lowestoft.org.uk /attractions.htm (1686 words)

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		This is a cul-de-sac behind Park Square East, close to Park Crescent.
		It was named after Sir Samuel Morton Peto, a prominent builder whose company Grissell and Peto, put up Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square.
		Peto Place contains a mixture of new and old mews houses.
	www.regentsparkliving.co.uk /streets/peto_street.htm (56 words)

	Harold Ainsworth Peto - a biography from the landscape architecture and Gardens Guide
		: An architect and connoisseur, son of Sir Samuel Morton Peto of Somerleyton Hall.
		Harold Peto loved Italian gardens but was also influenced by the Arts and Crafts enthusiasm of his day.
		Harold Peto's own house, Iford Manor, shows his style and interests.
	www.gardenvisit.com /b/peto.htm (104 words)

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