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2 unusual facts about Thomas Grissell


Thomas Grissell

Thomas Grissell (4 October 1801 — 26 May 1874) was an English public works contractor who was responsible for constructing a number of prestigious buildings in England.

Thomas died there in 1874 and was buried in the churchyard at St. Michael's Church in Mickleham.


Grissell and Peto

Grissell and Peto was a civil engineering partnership between Thomas Grissell and his cousin Morton Peto that built many major buildings and monuments in London and became one of the major contractors in the building of the rapidly expanding railways of the time.


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