# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-morton-peto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:03:28.010Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-morton-peto"
name: "Samuel Morton Peto"
slug: "samuel-morton-peto"
description: "Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet was an English entrepreneur, civil engineer and railway developer, and, for more than 20 years, a Member of Parliament (MP). 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 Club, The Lyceum Theatre, Nelson's Column and the replacement Houses of Parliament - commissions which brought him great wealth. The scale of his operations, and that of the workforce needed to undertake them, made him the world's largest employer."
tagline: "British politician, building contractor, railway contractor (1809-1889)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Morton_Peto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1809-08-04"
deathDate: "1889-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.08499066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "صموئيل مورتون بيتو"
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    title: "Morton Peto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morton_Peto"
    title: "Samuel Morton Peto"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Peto"
    title: "Morton Peto"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morton_Peto"
    title: "Samuel Morton Peto"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Peto"
    title: "Morton Peto"
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    title: "Samuel Morton Peto"
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    title: "Samuel Morton Peto"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump