George Horsfield (1882-1956) was a British architect and archaeologist. He was Chief Inspector of Antiquities inTransjordan in 1928–36. Horsfield began the initial clearance and conservation ofJerash in 1925, and excavated atPetra with his future wife,Agnes Conway in 1929.

George Horsfield was born in Meanwood,Leeds, Yorkshire, England on 19 April 1882 to Richard Horsfield and his wife Sarah. He attendedLeeds Grammar School and moved to London to train in architecture in the office of noted Gothic architectGeorge Frederick Bodley. Horsfield then moved to the United States to work for the architectural firmCram, Goodhue & Ferguson.

Horsfield returned to the UK in 1914 at the outbreak of war and volunteered for service in the Royal Naval Brigade. He saw action in theGallipoli campaign in 1915, after which he was commissioned into the 7th West Yorkshire Regiment and took part in theBattle of the Somme in 1916. After contractingtrench fever he was posted to India in 1918, attached to the Royal Engineers, and became the Chief Architect for Military Works,Rawalpindi, andSimla.

In 1923, Horsfield became a student at the recently establishedBritish School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. Its first Director,John Garstang, valued Horsfield's architectural background.^[1]

• Horsfield, G. and Conway, A. 1930. Historical and Topographical Notes on Edom: with an account of the first excavations at Petra.The Geographical Journal 76 (5), pp. 369–390.

• Thornton, A. 2009. George Horsfield, Conservation and the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.Antiquity Project Gallery.
• Wilson, E. 1906.Leeds Grammar School Admission Books, Vol. 14. Thoresby Society Publications.
• Who Was Who, 1951–1960. Horsfield, George. London: A. C. Black, p. 544.
• Evans, J. 1966. The Conways: A History of Three Generations. London: Museum Press.

• 1882 births
• 1956 deaths
• 20th-century British archaeologists