Donald Henry Northcote,[1] FRS (27 December 1921 – 7 January 2004) was a 20th-century British academic.

[2] Northcote was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School (1933–38).

[3] He was a Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry[4] at the University of Cambridge;[5] then Reader from 1965 to 1972; and Professor from 1972 to 1989.

[7] His daughter Jane married 21-year-old Tim Berners-Lee at Cambridge Register Office in July 1976.

The reception was at Sidney Sussex College, with a holiday in southern Ireland.