David Lawson Jacques PhD OBE is a British garden historian.
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.
His doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art, on English formal gardens, followed much later (c. 1990), after he had established a career as a consultant, author, and from 1987 English Heritage's first permanent inspector of parks and gardens.
[4] Jacques was a Trustee of the Chiswick House & Gardens Trust from its founding in 2005 until 2019; he had already been a consultant there from 1983 and involved through English Heritage.