Sir Joseph Paxton was a famous English gardener, architect, who designed Crystal Palace and cultivated the Cavendish banana, which made banana’s very popular in the western world.
Paxton was born on the third of August 1803,in Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire which is located in south central England. Paxton’s date of birth was in conflict but as he stated it in later life he did this so he could to enrol at Chiswick Gardens. The Horticultural Society's gardens were in close proximity to William Cavendish’s gardens ,6th Duke of Devonshire at Chiswick House. The duke met Paxton and had seen great promise in him and as a result gave him the role as head gardener at Chatsworth.
During this time in England, The industrial revolution was well underway.
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They married in 1827. When he got to Chatsworth he first wanted to redesign the garden around the new north of the house and expand Chatsworth's collection of conifers into an approximately 40-acre arboretum. He had a talent at moving mature trees. Other large projects at Chatsworth included the rock garden, and the Emperor Fountain and rebuilding Edensor village. In 1832, Paxton developed an interest in greenhouses at Chatsworth for exotic plants such as pineapples. In this time glass houses were in there beginnings and were just an idea. He designed a glass house with a ridge and furrow roof that would be at a 90 degree angle to the sun which would receive maximum light which is very similar to the modern greenhouse. The next significant building at Chatsworth was built for the first seeds of the Victoria regia lily. Although they had germinated and grown they hadn’t flowered and in 1849 a seedling was given to Paxton to try out at Chatsworth. He gave responsibility to Eduard Ortgies who was a younger gardener and within three months it flowered. They needed a larger house as it kept growing. This would be called the Victoria Regia House. Inspired by the waterlily's huge leaves he found the structure for his conservatory which he tested by floating his daughter Annie on a leaf. The trick was in the strength that the ribs provided connecting with flexible cross-ribs. Working over many years led him to a design for Crystal
Thomas's father, William Bateman, was an amateur antiquarian and pursued his pastime in accomplishing the excavation of a number of barrows on the family estate at Middleton. When William Bateman died in 1835 aged only 38, Thomas's upbringing and education were taken in hand by his grandfather. Thomas was educated at the non-conformist academy at Bootle, and from 1837 assisted in running the family estate, while in his spare time exploring the peakland, hunting, shooting, collecting flints and examining the many local ancient monuments. Bateman became a keen student of archaeology and read and was greatly influenced by Sir Richard Colt Hoare's seminal work Ancient Wiltshire.
Henry was born on May 29, 1736 in Studley in Hanover County, Virginia (Red Hill). His father John Henry was a Scottish – born planter. His dad educated young Patrick at home, including teaching him to read Latin, but Patrick studied law on his own (History). His mother Sarah Winston Syme was a young widow from a prominent gentrys family (Red Hill). Henry attended a local school for a few years and received the remainder of his education from his father who had attended Kings College in Abedeen.
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Born May 29, 1736, at studley in the family farm, in Hanover country, Virginia. Patrick henry is considered one of the great American authors, he wrote in the rationalist period. As a kid henry attended local schools for a couple of years, and after this his father decided to teach him himself. In 1754 henry decided to marry Sarah Shelton, they lived together in a 300 acre pine slash farm near Mechanicsville gifted to them by Sarah’s parents as a wedding gift with a couple of slaves, with his marriage henry became a landowner and also a slave owner Patrick henry then decided to start a career
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... the church now named Derby Cathedral and was honored by having the road he lived on named after him. William Cavendish the 7th Duke of Devonshire, Henry Cavendish later relative, donated the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
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Transferable skills are the skills that a person acquires and transfers to future employment settings.
England's most talented and well know poet and dramatist was born on April 23, 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon, located in the cetre of England. His father, John, was a glove-maker and wool dealer involved with money lending. His mother Mary Arden was the daughter of a Farmer. William was the third out of eight children whom all died young. His father became Mayor in 1568, after serving on the town council for many years.
He was born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23rd, 1564. Shakespeare never attended a university and was thought to have been educated at a local school in Stratford. The purpose of this minor school was to prepare scholars for the hard toil of the grammar school. No history, geography, music, handicrafts or physical training was taught. It is evident no doubt that William gained something from the Latin texts he read at school. He loved Ovid and was overjoyed when towards the end of the century Francis Meres wrote: ‘As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras: so the sweete wittie soule of Ovis lives in mellifluous an...