Richard George Goodchild (born 18 July 1918 in Exeter, died 18 February 1968 in London) was a British provincial Roman archaeologist.
During one of these excavations, Goodchild met, among others, the archaeologist Olwen Brogan and the later pioneer of aerial archaeology, John Spencer Purvis Bradford.
From 1946 to 1948 Goodchild worked for the British military administration as head of the antique collection in the Italian province of Tripolitania.
There he met Olwen Brogan again and began his longstanding collaboration with the archaeologist John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1912-1981), who had been the director of the British School in Rome since 1945.
The resulting two sheets for the research project Tabula Imperii Romani were published by the Society of Antiquaries of London after their completion.