David Lawson Jacques is a British
garden historian
The early history of gardening is largely entangled with the history of agriculture, with gardens that were mainly ornamental generally the preserve of the elite until quite recent times. Smaller gardens generally had being a kitchen garden as th ...
. He specializes in landscape conservation and the history of 17th and 18th century gardens.
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
*''Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630-1730'' (
Paul Mellon Centre, 2017)
*''The Gardens of William and Mary'' (1978)
*''Georgian Gardens: The Reign of Nature'' (1983)
*''Landscape Modernism Renounced: The Career of Christopher Tunnard, 1910-1978'' (Routledge, 2009)
References
Landscape historians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British garden writers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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