Christopher Thacker Explained

Christopher John Charles Thacker (14 March 1931 – 27 September 2018) was an English garden historian.^{[1] [2]}

After graduating from Brasenose College, Oxford, and a Phd at the University of Indiana, he was an academic, but never as a garden historian, a field still emerging in his day. Mostly he taught French literature at Trinity College, Dublin and Reading University. He was the founding editor of the leading academic journal Garden History.^[3]

Selected publications

• Masters of the Grotto, Joseph and Josiah Lane (1976)
• The History of Gardens (1979)
• Of Oxfordshire Gardens (1982)
• The Wildness Pleases; The Origins of Romanticism (1983)
• England’s Historic Gardens (1989)
• Historic Garden Tools (1990)
• The Genius of Gardening (1994)
• Building Towers, Forming Gardens: Landscaping by Hamilton, Hoare and Beckford (2002)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christopher Thacker obituary. 19 December 2018. 20 December 2018. Thetimes.co.uk.
2. Web site: Christopher Thacker, eminent garden historian inspired by Voltaire – obituary. Telegraph. Obituaries. 28 October 2018. 20 December 2018. Telegraph.co.uk.
3. Web site: Christopher Thacker remembered. 20 November 2018. Thegardenstrust.org. 20 December 2018.