Sir joseph paxton biography definition
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Joseph Paxton MP (1803 - 1865)
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Son of William Paxton and Anne (Rooke) Paxton
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Sarah (Bown) Paxton — married Jan 1827 [location unknown]
DescendantsFather of Rosa (Paxton) Markham
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Biography
Joseph Paxton MP is Notable.
Joseph Paxton was born on the 3rd of August 1803.
He is notable as an English gardener, architect, engineer and Member of Parliament, best known for designing the Crystal Palace and the gardens at Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
He married Sarah Bown at Matlock in Derbyshire on the 20th of February 1827. [1]
Paxton was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Coventry from 1854 until his death in 1865.
He died on the 8th of June 1865.
Sources
- ↑Derbyshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 (Matlock, Derbyshire 20 Feb 1827 Joseph Paxton married Sarah Bown)
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Dictionary of Public Biography, 1885-1900/Paxton, Joseph
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Joseph Paxton
English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament
Sir Joseph Paxton | |
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Sir Joseph Paxton | |
| Born | (1803-08-03)3 August 1803 Bedfordshire, England |
| Died | 8 June 1865(1865-06-08) (aged 61) Sydenham, London, England |
| Occupation | Architect |
Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Liberal Member of Parliament. He is best known for designing the Crystal Palace, which was built in Hyde Park, London to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, the first world's fair, and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world.
Early life
[edit]Paxton was born in 1803, the seventh son of a farming family, in Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. Some references, incorrectly, list his birth year as 1801. This is, as he admitted in later life, a result of misinformation he provided in his teens, which enabled him to enrol at Chiswick Gardens. He became a garden boy at the age of fifteen for Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner at Battlesden Park, near Woburn. After several moves, he obtained a position in 1823 at the Horticultural Society's Chiswick Gardens.[1]
Chatsworth
[edit]The Horticultural Society's gardens were close to the gardens of William Cavendish