Christopher Thacker
Christopher John Charles Thacker (14 March 1931 – 27 September 2018) 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'' (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) References

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Brasenose College, Oxford
Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the mid-17th century and the new quadrangle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For 2020–21, Brasenose placed 4th in the Norrington Table (an unofficial measure of performance in undergraduate degree examinations). In a recent Oxford Barometer Survey, Brasenose's undergraduates registered 98% overall satisfaction. In recent years, around 80% of the UK undergraduate intake have been from state schools. Brasenose is home to one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world, Brasenose College Boat Club. History Foundation The history of Brasenose College, Oxford stretches back to 1509, when the college was founded on the site of Brasenose Hall, a medieval academic hall whose name is first mentioned in 1279. Its name is believed to derive f ...
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