Architect responsible for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Born Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. The Crystal Palace Company gave him, free of rent, Rockhills, a Regency house to the north of the Crystal Palace. He lived at Rockhills from 1853 until his death there.
IanVisits has a fascinating post about a scheme proposed by Paxton: the Great Victorian Way — a railway that would have run for 10 miles around central London.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Joseph Paxton
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
Building designed by: Joseph Paxton First large scale prefabricated glass and...
On this site stood Rockhills, the home of Sir Joseph Paxton MP, 1852 - 1865, ...
Born Worcester as Henry John Paull. In partnership with Bickerdike 1873-7. His architect son Alan carried on his father's practice. From Manchester Victorian Architects: "... He rarely remained in...
Surveyor and architect. Born John Wornham Penfold in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a founding member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and is best known for designing the British hexagona...
Born near Liverpool, son of the Danish Consul. Became an architect in the Arts and Crafts style, specialising in churches. The splendid 1 Millbank was built for the Church Commissioners in 1903. Di...
Architect and artist. Born Lambeth. Founding member of RIBA. Travelled extensively and illustrated topographical publications. Waymarking has the text of a 1997 paper by Leslie du Cane which sa...
Architect. Born 8 Bloomsbury Square. Co-founder of RIBA. Died at home, 21 Upper Bedford Place.
There are so many issues with this memorial, it's difficult to know where to begin. We take the main part of the inscription to mean tha...
Philanthropist. Born Stella Charnaud in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey. She is best remembered as the founder of the Women's Voluntary Services (now known as the Royal Voluntary Service). In...
Person, Philanthropy, India, Turkey, USA
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