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Auction: 17020 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 903

Autographs
Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet
1838 (26 October) folio A.L.S. to Sir C.P. Roney from Somerleyton Hall with regard to some business affair in Australia (possibly to do with the railways) and is signed "S. Morton Peto".

Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet (1809 – 1889) was an English entrepreneur, civil engineer and railway developer, and, for more than 20 years, a Member of Parliament. 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.



Sir Cusack Patrick Roney, Secretary, Eastern Counties Railway



Somerleyton Hall is a country house in the village of Somerleyton near Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and has a notable garden.

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Estimate
£100 to £150