{{Short description|Australian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}} '''Sir Henry Weedon''' (26 March 1859 – 26 March 1921) was an Australian politician.
Weedon was born in Melbourne to builder Henry Weedon and Emily ''née'' Emery, both born in London.<ref name=adb>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |volume=12 |year=1990 |title=Sir Henry Weedon (1859–1921) |id2=weedon-sir-henry-9034 |first=David |last=Dunstan |access-date=12 August 2025}}</ref> He worked as a painter and decorator, eventually becoming managing partner of the successful Talma Photographic Studios of Sydney and Melbourne.<ref name=adb/> He married Emily Ellard (d. 1896) on 26 December 1880 at St Jude's Church, Carlton, with whom he had one son;<ref name=adb/> he would later marry Frances (Fanny) Dudley Cohen (''née'' Miller) in (d. 1913) on 5 August 1896 at All Saints Church, St Kilda, and Florence Mary Maud McCarron on 17 April 1915 at St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland, New Zealand.<ref name=adb/> From 1899 to 1921 he served on Melbourne City Council, and was Lord Mayor from 1906 to 1908, in which year he was knighted.<ref name=arch>{{Cite web |url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1524 |title=Weedon, Sir Henry |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-date=30 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330030127/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1524 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
In January 1907 Weedon was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for East Melbourne<ref name=parl>{{Cite Parliament of Victoria Member Profile |name=Sir Henry Weedon (KT) |id=henry-weedon |access-date=4 August 2025}}</ref> following the resignation of Samuel Gillott on 4 December 1906.<ref name=Gill>{{Cite Parliament of Victoria Member Profile |name=Sir Samuel Gillott (Kt) |id=samuel-gillott |access-date=12 August 2025}}</ref> He lost his seat in the October 1911 election and unsuccessfully contested his former seat in 1912 and 1914.<ref name=adb/><ref name=arch/> In June 1919 returned to Parliament for Melbourne Province in the Victorian Legislative Council.<ref name=adb/><ref name=arch/><ref name=parl/> Weedon died in Darlinghurst in Sydney in 1921 and was buried in Melbourne General Cemetery.<ref name=adb/><ref name=arch/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-vic-la}} {{s-bef|before=Samuel Gillott}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for East Melbourne | years=1907–1911}} {{s-aft|after=Alfred Farthing}} {{s-par|au-vic-lc}} {{s-bef|before=John Davies}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Melbourne | years=1919–1921 | alongside=John McWhae}} {{s-aft|after=Henry Cohen}} {{s-civ}} {{s-bef|before=Charles Pleasance}} {{s-ttl|title=Lord Mayor of Melbourne | years=1906–1908}} {{s-aft|after=James Burston}} {{s-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Weedon, Henry}} Category:1859 births Category:1921 deaths Category:Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Category:Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Category:Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Category:Australian Knights Bachelor Category:Mayors and lord mayors of Melbourne Category:20th-century mayors of places in Australia Category:Politicians from the Colony of Victoria