biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1801–65)
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| biography:
| Gardener and architect, born near Woburn, Bedfordshire, SC England, UK. He was a working gardener to the Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick and Chatsworth, where he remodelled the gardens, and built the conservatory and lily house. He designed a revolutionary building of prefabricated sections of cast-iron and glass for the Great Exhibition of 1851 (nicknamed ‘the Crystal Palace’), which he re-erected in Sydenham in 1854. It was destroyed by fire in 1936. |
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