David Winfield (conservator)

David Crampton Winfield MBE (2 December 1929 - 28 September 2013) was a British conservator and Byzantinist who specialised in wall paintings. The first part of his career was spent abroad, mainly in Turkey and Cyprus, and he was awarded an MBE in 1974 for his conservation work in Cyprus.[1] In his obituary in The Times, David Winfield was described as “an investigative archaeological explorer cast in the mould of the great 19th-century scholar-travellers”.[2]

Later in his career he worked in the United Kingdom and was appointed the first Surveyor of Conservation for the National Trust in 1981.[3]

  1. ^ "Page 1 | Supplement 46162, 28 December 1973 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  2. ^ "David Winfield". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  3. ^ "British picture restorers, 1600-1950 - W - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2021.