{{Short description|English garden historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Christopher John Charles Thacker''' (14 March 1931 – 27 September 2018) was an English garden historian.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/christopher-thacker-obituary-f6nkfnpzc|title=Christopher Thacker obituary|date=19 December 2018|access-date=20 December 2018|website=The Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/10/28/christopher-thacker-eminent-garden-historian-inspired-voltaire/|title=Christopher Thacker, eminent garden historian inspired by Voltaire – obituary|first=Telegraph|last=Obituaries|date=28 October 2018|accessdate=20 December 2018|website=Telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>
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''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thegardenstrust.org/christopher-thacker-remembered/|title=Christopher Thacker remembered|date=20 November 2018|website=Thegardenstrust.org|accessdate=20 December 2018}}</ref>
==Selected publications== * ''Masters of the Grotto, Joseph and Josiah Lane'' (1976) * ''The History of Gardens'' (1979) {{ISBN|978-0856648205}} * ''Of Oxfordshire Gardens'' (1982) * ''The Wildness Pleases; The Origins of Romanticism'' (1983) {{ISBN|978-1138647992}} * ''England’s Historic Gardens'' (1989) {{ISBN|978-1859620106}} * ''Historic Garden Tools'' (1990) * ''The Genius of Gardening'' (1994) {{ISBN|978-0297833543}} * ''Building Towers, Forming Gardens: Landscaping by Hamilton, Hoare and Beckford'' (2002) {{ISBN|978-0950821320}}
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