Prince of Gardener

Prince of Gardener

Introduction

Sir Joseph Paxton was an innovative English botanist, author, architect, shareholders and politicians, and a member of the Royal Horticultural Society. He worked as a gardener for William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, who allowed him financial support experiments with plants and glass greenhouses. The results of his research published in books and Paxton numerous weekly and monthly magazines. At the same time he took over as architect of the planning landscape gardens and residential buildings. For the construction of the Crystal Palace, the exhibition building of the first World Exhibition in London in 1851, he was of Queen Victoria knighted. He was in contact with important figures such as the English Charles Dickens, George Stephenson and Charles Darwin and was director of the railway company, Midland Railway. From 1854 until shortly before his death he had a seat as Member of Parliament in the House of Coventry held. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “Paxton ".

Joseph Paxton was born on 3 August 1803 in Milton Bryne in the county of Bedfordshire born. His father, William (1759-1810) and his mother Anne (1761-1823) operated a small farm and had her nine children under the harsh conditions of the pre-industrial era with minimal financial resources are big. Although education in rural families at that time no high Set values ??and had the children had usually at an early age to work at the field, most likely visited Joseph Paxton Primary School in nearby Woburn, by the first Duke of Bedford was established. After the unexpected death of his father, the then seven-year-old Joseph was raised by his oldest brother, also William. As the latter in 1816 with the administration of the estate of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, in Battlesden Park was entrusted in Woburn; he offered his younger brother a job as a gardener. This was where his first experience in the field of botanical collecting.

After two years, Joseph moved to the estate of Woodhall in Walton, Hertfordshire, where he worked under the renowned gardener William Griffin, who later became the first members of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). Over the years as Paxton as a simple gardener, he moved to emigrate to the United States into account.

Chiswick Gardens: The 6th Duke of Devonshire as a promoter

In 1821, rented the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), the Chiswick Gardens near the Chiswick estate of William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858) in order to create a botanical garden experiment. At the age of 20 years, Joseph Paxton applied to the RHS and was a gardener for a portion of the Chiswick Gardens in charge. Since he had not yet reached at that time the minimum age for admission to the Society, he dated his birth year 1801 - an indication which is false is used today in some literature about Paxton. The 6thDuke of Devonshire took regular walks through the Chiswick Gardens and has been of Paxton's work so impressed that he gave him in 1826 the job as head gardener in one of his other property - the Chatsworth House - ...