The Venerable Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne, MC, MA (8 January 1886 – 12 December 1968) was Archdeacon of Western Szechwan from 1935 to 1949.

He was a member of the Church Missionary Society in Szechwan (now romanized as Sichuan), West China from 1920 to 1949.

[10] He was the father of Audrey Donnithorne;[11] and was one of the key figures in the discovery of the archaeological site now known as Sanxingdui.

He recognized the importance of the discovery and contacted a local magistrate as well as Daniel S. Dye, a professor of geology at West China Union University.

Then, in 1934, David Crockett Graham, the new director of the museum at WCUU, organized the first archaeological excavation of the site.