Christopher Thacker

Christopher John Charles Thacker was an English garden historian.
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.

Selected publications

Masters of the Grotto, Joseph and Josiah Lane The History of Gardens Of Oxfordshire Gardens The Wildness Pleases; The Origins of Romanticism England’s Historic Gardens Historic Garden Tools The Genius of Gardening

''Building Towers, Forming Gardens: Landscaping by Hamilton, Hoare and Beckford''