Joseph Paxton
1803–65
Gardener and architect. Gardener at the Horticultural Society gardens in Chiswick, 1823; foreman, 1824–6. Head gardener at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, 1826–50. Designed the layout of and constructions for the Great Exhibition in 1851. Superintended the re-erection of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, 1853–4; director of the gardens there, 1854–65. Liberal MP for Coventry, 1854–65. Knighted, 1851.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994, Modern English biography
ODNB.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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