Christopher John Charles Thacker (14 March 1931 – 27 September 2018) was an English garden historian.^[1][2]

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.^[3]

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