Isaac de Caus (Caux) was a garden designer, architect and engineer active in the 17th century.
He was born in Dieppe, France around 1589 to 1590, the relative, possibly the nephew, of French garden designer and hydraulic engineer, Salomon de Caus (Caux) (born around 1576, died 1626).
De Caus (Caux) was working in England by about the early-1620s and in 1634 became naturalized here. He died in Paris and was buried on 24 February 1648 in the city's Huguenot cemetery.
Sources:
Colvin, Howard, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 3rd edition (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995), pp. 298-299.
-‘Caus , Isaac de (1589/90–1648)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7406> [accessed 14 January 2008]
Hadfield, Miles, Robert Harling and Leonine Highton, British Gardeners: A Biographical Dictionary (London: A. Zwemmer Ltd., 1980), pp. 97-98.