Christopher John Charles Thacker (14 March 1931 – 27 September 2018) was an English garden historian.
After graduating from
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 mi ...
, and a Phd at the
University of Indiana
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Campuses
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, 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
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
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, motto_English = It will last i ...
and
Reading University
The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...
. He was the founding editor of the leading academic journal ''
Garden History
The Garden History Society was an organisation in the United Kingdom established to study the history of gardening and to protect historic gardens. In 2015 it became The Gardens Trust, having merged with the Association of Gardens Trusts.
It was f ...
''.
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
1931 births
2018 deaths
English garden writers
People from Bishop's Cleeve
Academics of the University of Reading
Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
English Heritage
Indiana University alumni
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