Dr Dukinfield Henry Scott FRS[1] HFRSE LLD (28 November 1854 – 29 January 1934) was a British botanist.

1872),[4] and then as a postgraduate at Würzburg University in Germany, where he studied under the famous botanist Julius von Sachs, and earned his doctorate.

In 1892, Scott was appointed the first Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a position he held for fourteen years until 1906, under the Directorship of the botanist William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, one of his early mentors.

He worked closely with specialists in paleobotany such as William Crawford Williamson and Francis Wall Oliver.

She continued to carry out research after their marriage, and also provided illustrations and indexes for some of his books and catalogued his collection of fossil slides.