Joseph Paxton
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 159 years ago |
Date of birth | August 3,1803 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Bedfordshire |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | June 8,1865 |
Died | Sydenham |
London | |
United Kingdom | |
Party | Liberal Party |
Place of burial | Derbyshire, United Kingdom |
St Peter's Church, Edensor, United Kingdom | |
Job | Architect |
Politician | |
Landscape architect | |
horticulturist | |
Plant Biologist | |
Books | Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants |
Paxton's Botanical Dictionary: Comprising the Names, History, and Culture of All Plants Known in Britain : with a Full Explanation of Technical Terms | |
Paxton's Botanical Dictionary; Comprising the Names, History, and Culture of All Plants Known in Britain; With a Full Explanation of Technical Terms. New Ed. Including All the New Plants Up to the Present Year | |
A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Dahlia | |
Children | Rosa Paxton |
Designed | The Crystal Palace |
Grandchildren | Violet Markham |
Sir Arthur Markham, 1st Baronet | |
Nationality | British |
English | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 507184 |
Joseph Paxton Life story
Sir Joseph Paxton was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Member of Parliament, best known for designing the Crystal Palace and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world.