David Jacques

David Lawson Jacques PhD is a British garden historian. He specializes in landscape conservation and the history of 17th and 18th century gardens. He was prominent in the campaign to have cultural landscapes admitted to the World Heritage List in 1992, and served on the ICOMOS World Heritage Panel 2020-1 and 2022-3.

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

 * Georgian Gardens: The Reign of Nature (Batsfords, 1983)
 * The Gardens of William and Mary (Christopher Helm, 1978)
 * Essential to the Pracktick Part of Phisick: The London Apothecaries 1540-1617 (Honourable Society of Apothecaries of London, 1992)
 * Landscape Modernism Renounced: The Career of Christopher Tunnard, 1910-1978 (Routledge, 2009)
 * Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630-1730 (Paul Mellon Centre, 2017)
 * Landscape Appreciation: Theories since the Cultural Turn (Packard Publishing, 2019)
 * Chiswick House Gardens: 300 Years of Creation and Re-creation (Historic England, 2022)
 * The Fabulous Peshalls: Genealogy and Fraud (North Staffordshire Press, 2023)
 * Teaching Landscape History (Routledge, 2024)
 * Tudor and Stuart Royal Gardens (Windgather Press, 2024)