Don NorthcoteDonald Henry Northcote, FRS was a 20th-century British academic.Early lifeNorthcote was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School. He graduated from University of London.CareerHe was a Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge; then Reader from 1965 to 1972; and Professor from 1972 to 1989. He was also an Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.Personal lifeHis daughter Jane married 21-year-old Tim Berners-Lee at Cambridge Register Office in July 1976. Both had graduated, together, in Physics. Both would work as engineers in Poole in Dorset, at Plessey. She had attended Perse School for Girls. The reception was at Sidney Sussex College, with a holiday in southern Ireland. They lived in Corfe Mullen.