Sir joseph paxton biography of barack
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Apropos of nothing:
A researcher just spotted that Joseph Paxton (the future Sir Joseph) crops up as a 36-year old on the list of people qualified to serve as a juror.
The eagle-eyed will meddelande that his qualification fryst vatten as a freeholder, so he must have owned property in the area, rather than just lodging at Chatsworth. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong! inom have hardly ever seen the lists of jurors (Q/RJ/1) – they could might be called an under-used resource.
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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 a
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The pre-eminent Victorian was Joseph Paxton who bestrode the worlds of horticulture, urban planning, and architecture like a colossus. He was a self-taught polymath who had a solution to every large-scale logistical problem, the genius Charles Dickens dubbed "The Busiest Man in England."
Rising quickly from humble beginnings, Paxton, at age 23, became head gardener and architect at Chatsworth, the estate of the sixth Duke of Devonshire. Under Paxton's direction, Chatsworth was transformed into the greatest garden in England, a paradise of magnificent greenhouses, gravity-defying fountains, and innovative waterworks. Queen Victoria herself came to marvel; here was Britain's answer to the hanging gardens of Babylon. But it was the Crystal Palace, home of the Great Exhibition of 1851, that secured Paxton's fame. Two thousand men worked for eight months to complete this unprecedented temporary structure of iron and glass. It was six times the size of St. Paul's Cathedral, and entert