Grissell and Peto information

Grissell and Peto was a civil engineering partnership between Thomas Grissell and his cousin Morton Peto that built many major buildings and monuments...

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...

associate of Falstaff Grissell and Peto, a civil engineering partnership between Thomas Grissell and his cousin Morton Peto Peto, Brassey and Betts, a civil...

married his sister Mary. The new partnership was called Grissell and Peto. Together Grissell and Peto built up a rapidly growing business, controlling all...

cousin Thomas Grissell went into partnership as railway contractors. However, Grissell became increasingly nervous of the risks taken by Peto, and in 1846 dissolved...

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...

Barry and contracted to builders Grissell & Peto. The new club was built on palatial lines, the design being based on the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, and its...

buildings in England, Russia, Austria, and Egypt. Henry Grissell was born in London to Thomas de la Garde Grissell, who worked with the East India Company...

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 Betts established...

Bidder was appointed as the new contractor. Engineering contractors Grissell and Peto were approached late in 1837 about building the line as far as Bishop's...

Stephenson was the chairman of the Company and Robert Stephenson the engineer. Share capital was £150,000. Grissell and Peto were appointed as the contractors;...

undertaken by the partnership of Grissell and Peto, who later went on to build Nelson's Column, the Reform Club, and the Lyceum Theatre, The buildings...

Morton Peto through his company Messrs Grissell and Peto. It was decided to construct the majority of the tunnel using the traditional cut-and-cover method...

contractors were Thomas Grissell and Morton Peto. An inscribed trowel in the Parliamentary Archives records that Emily, sister of Peto's daughter-in-law, was...

wide at ground level and 10 metres (33 ft) at deck level. The contractor was the partnership of Thomas Grissell and Samuel Morton Peto. The cost was £40...

Birmingham (1905–1911), and Bishop of Oxford (1911–1919) Hartwell de la Garde Grissell (1839–1907), papal chamberlain Henry Haigh (1837–1906), Archdeacon of the...

(1780–1845), prison reformer Thomas Grissell (1801–1874), public works contractor Hilda Hewlett (1864–1943), pioneer aviator and aviation entrepreneur Ebenezer...

supplied locomotives. The company became more self-reliant as time went on, and by the beginning of the 20th century virtually all new engines were produced...