(b Milton Bryant, Beds, 3 Aug 1803; d Sydenham, Kent, 9 June 1865). English horticulturalist, garden designer and architect. He established his reputation as a gardener at Chatsworth House, Derbys, where he developed new construction techniques for glasshouses. This work inspired his acclaimed and influential ‘Crystal Palace’, which housed the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.

• Paxton, Joseph
  • Barlow, W. H.
  • Jones, Owen
  • Urban planning, §IV, 3: c 1800–c 1890: Improvements
  • Wyatt: (9) Matthew Digby Wyatt
  • architecture
    • conservatories
      • Conservatory
      • Garden, §VIII, 5(i): After c 1800: The plantsman’s garden
      • Glass, §IV, 2(ii): Uses: Architecture, 1800–1913
      • Greenhouse
    • country houses
      • Architectural conservation and restoration, §3: After c 1900
      • Cavendish: (5) William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
    • exhibition architecture
      • England, §II, 5: Architecture, c 1830–c 1914
      • England, §VIII, 4: Glass, 1831–1900
      • Exhibition, §3(i): c 1850–c 1907: England
      • Exhibition architecture, §1: Early exhibitions in London, Paris and Vienna, 1851–73
      • International exhibition
      • Iron and steel, §II, 1(ii): Architecture, c 1850–c 1880
      • Machine aesthetic
      • Palace, §II, 5: 19th and 20th centuries
      • Polychromy, §1(ii): Architecture, after c 1800
  • collaboration
    • Burton, Decimus
  • groups and movements
    • Elizabethan Revival
    • Victorian style
  • parks
    • Glasgow, §1(ii): History and urban development, 1750–1918
    • Park, §3: Public parks
  • patrons and collectors
    • Cavendish
    • Chatsworth House
    • Rothschild