George Herbert Foggitt was born in Yeadon, Yorkshire, England on 26 May 1887 and was articled to his father, George Foggitt (1841-1914) in 1903. He also studied at Leeds School of Architecture, and at the Royal College of Art in London from 1909 to 1912. Foggitt remained in London and worked as an assistant to Arthur Beresford Pite (1861-1934); Edmund Walter Wimperis (1865-1946); to William Whitehead; and to Richard Fielding Farrar (1860-1948). He qualified as an architect in 1913 and by 1914 had returned to Yeadon where he commenced independent practice as an architect. In c.1925 he joined Harry Sutton Chorley (1869-1939) and Blakeley Rinder Gribbon (1884-1944) in partnership as Chorley, Gribbon & Froggit. They had had an office at 3 Park Place, Leeds and remained in partnership until at least 1939.
Foggitt was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1914, and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1928. He was an R.I.B.A. Tite Prizeman in 1911, and was awarded the Architecture Bronze Medal for West Yorkshire in 1931.
His address was given as 84, Albion Street, Leeds, in 1923; Ashfield, Yeadon in 1923 and 1926; 3, Park Place, Leeds in 1926 and 1939; and 5 Springwood Road, Rawdon, Leeds in 1975. He died in Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, England on 30 March 1975
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001