David Jacques Explained

David Lawson Jacques PhD is a British garden historian. He specializes in landscape conservation and the history of 17th and 18th century gardens.^[1] He was prominent in the campaign to have cultural landscapes admitted to the World Heritage List in 1992, and served on the ICOMOS World Heritage Panel 2020-1 and 2022-3.

Jacques was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to garden history and conservation.

Books

• Georgian Gardens: The Reign of Nature (Batsfords, 1983)^[2]
• The Gardens of William and Mary (Christopher Helm, 1978)
• Essential to the Pracktick Part of Phisick: The London Apothecaries 1540-1617 (Honourable Society of Apothecaries of London, 1992)
• Landscape Modernism Renounced: The Career of Christopher Tunnard, 1910-1978 (Routledge, 2009)^[3]
• Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630-1730 (Paul Mellon Centre, 2017)^[4]
• Landscape Appreciation: Theories since the Cultural Turn (Packard Publishing, 2019)
• Chiswick House Gardens: 300 Years of Creation and Re-creation (Historic England, 2022)
• The Fabulous Peshalls: Genealogy and Fraud (North Staffordshire Press, 2023)
• Teaching Landscape History (Routledge, 2024)
• Tudor and Stuart Royal Gardens (Windgather Press, 2024)

Notes and References

1. Web site: David Jacques. Institute of Historical Research.
2. Brandon . Peter . £25·00 David Jacques Georgian Gardens: the Reign of Nature 1983 B. T. Batsford London 240 . Journal of Historical Geography . January 1985 . 11 . 1 . 90–91 . . 10.1016/S0305-7488(85)80038-4 .
3. Powers . Alan . Review of Landscape Modernism Renounced: The Career of Christopher Tunnard (1910–1979) . Garden History . 2010 . 38 . 1 . 155–156 . 27821626 .
4. Web site: Round & round the garden. Their Real. Names. newcriterion.com.