William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire’
In The Copybook
Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire’
In The Copybook
When Joseph Paxton, then just twenty-three, came to Chatsworth as Head Gardener he wasted no time getting settled in.
Joseph Paxton, one of Victorian Britain’s most celebrated men, designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, gave the world its most popular banana, the Cavendish, and for thirty-two years cared for the superb gardens of his employer, William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. The two were firm friends, and the Duke remembered clearly how it all began.