Sir Joseph Paxton

(1803-1865)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Paxton, Joseph, Sir, 1803-1865 NRA: Paxton Sir Joseph (1801-1865) Knight MP Architect and Landscape Gardener DNB: Paxton, Sir Joseph (1803-1865), landscape gardener and architect LBT ID: JoPaxto1865 VIAF ID: 15565873 LOC ID: n80132081	B/BAP: 1803-08-03 DIED: 1865-06-08
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Originally head gardener at the Duke of Devonshire's estate at Chatsworth; as an architect he designed the Crystal Palace for the exhibition of 1850.
REFERENCES TO Sir Joseph Paxton: Duke of Devonshire to Francis Hodgson, 1 October 1838 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Duke of Devonshire to Francis Hodgson, 6 April 1839 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ Douglas Jerrold to Lady Morgan, 9 June [1850] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXXV James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XXI. 1837-40. Found 1: ¶ Chapter XXII. 1840-47. Found 1: ¶ 29