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Joseph Paxton
English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament
Sir Joseph Paxton | |
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Sir Joseph Paxton | |
| Born | ()3 August Bedfordshire, England |
| Died | 8 June () (aged&#;61) Sydenham, London, England |
| Occupation | Architect |
Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August – 8 June ) 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 , the first world's fair, and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world.
Sir joseph paxton biography of michael
Early life
Paxton was born in , the seventh son of a farming family, in Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. Some references, incorrectly, list his birth year as 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 Battles