William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire Also known as: Duke of Devonshire William Spencer Cavendish · William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire · William Spencer Cavendish, Duke of, Devonshire · William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire · William Spencer, Duke of Devonshire Cavendish · [6th] Duke of Devonshire · William Spencer, 6th Duke of Devonshire · William Spencer Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire
Community · Joseph Paxton William George Spencer Cavendish , 6th Duke of Devonshire, styled Marquess of Hartington until 1811, was an English peer, courtier and Whig politician.
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His major projects including the wholesale rebuilding of the village of Edensor, and significant improvement to his several stately houses and their gardens. He befriended Sir Joseph Paxton, then employed at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chiswick Gardens, located close to Devonshire's London estate Chiswick House, and appointed him his head gardener at Chatsworth House in 1826, despite Paxton being only in his early twenties at the time.
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The building was architecturally adventurous, drawing on Paxton's experience designing greenhouses for the sixth Duke of Devonshire.