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