Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Liberal Member of Parliament.

Sir Joseph Paxton (born Aug. 3, 1801, near Woburn, Bedfordshire, Eng.—died June 8, 1865, Sydenham, near London) was an English landscape gardener and designer of hothouses, who was the architect of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.

2013年7月5日 · Already a famous gardener at the time, Paxton experimented extensively with glasshouse construction. Using combinations of prefabricated cast iron, laminated wood, and standard sized glass...

English architect Sir Joseph Paxton © Paxton was an English gardener, designer, writer and creator of one of most famous buildings of Victoria's reign, the Crystal Palace. Joseph...

2025年1月7日 · His genius was in bringing together two disciplines, Architecture and Horticulture, by converting his understanding and study of the Victoria leaves into practical architectural results, the forerunner of modern skyscrapers, pre-fabricated buildings and greenhouses.

Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was a visionary, described in his obituary in The Times, in June 1865, as ‘the greatest gardener of his time, the founder of a new style of architecture, and a man of genius’.

2024年12月2日 · Joseph Paxton was born in August 1803, the seventh son of poor farm labourers in Bedfordshire, and he rose from those humble beginnings to become, at the age of 20, the head gardener at Chatsworth House, the Duke of Devonshire’s large country house in Derbyshire.

Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P. for Coventry, one of the most famous gardeners of modern times, who died, on the 8th inst., at his residence, Rock Hills, Sydenham, after an illness of some weeks' duration, was the son of a Bedfordshire yeoman, William Paxton, of Milton-Bryant, near Woburn.