{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{More footnotes needed|date=February 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = The Honourable |name = Sir Henry Wrixon |honorific_suffix = KCMG, QC |image = Wrixon.jpg |alt = |caption = |order = 17th Attorney-General of Victoria |office = |term_start = 18 February 1886 |term_end = 4 November 1890 |premier = Duncan Gillies |predecessor = George Kerferd |successor = William Shiels |birth_date = {{Birth date|1839|10|18|df=y}} |birth_place = Dublin, Ireland, UK |death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|4|9|1839|10|18|df=y}} |death_place = Kew, Victoria, Australia |birth_name = Henry John Wrixon |party = |other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> |spouse = Charlotte Anderson |relations = |children = |alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin |profession = Barrister |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = }} '''Sir Henry John Wrixon''' {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|KCMG|QC}} (18 October 1839 – 9 April 1913) was an Australian barrister and politician.
==Early life== Wrixon was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Arthur Nicholas Wrixon and his wife, Charlotte Matilda. He was educated in Portland, Victoria, entered the University of Melbourne in its inaugural year of 1855, and became one of the earliest students to matriculate there. In 1857 he returned to Ireland and entered Trinity College Dublin, graduating with a BA in 1861; the same year was called to the Irish Bar.
== References == {{reflist}} *{{cite AuDB |first=Jill |last=Eastwood |id2=wrixon-sir-henry-john-4895 |title=Wrixon, Sir Henry John (1839–1913)] |volume=6 |year=1976 |pages=445–446 |access-date=14 October 2009}} *{{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Henry John|Last=Wrixon|shortlink=0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html#wrixon1}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|au-vic-la}} {{s-bef|before=Gordon Evans}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Belfast|years=1868–1877}} {{s-aft|after=Sir John O'Shanassy}} {{s-bef|before=Thomas Cope}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Portland|years=1880–1894}} {{s-aft|after=Donald Norman McLeod}} {{s-par|au-vic-lc}} {{s-bef|before=Joseph Grey}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for South-Western Province |years=1896–1910 |with=Joseph Connor 1896–1899<br>Thomas Harwood 1899–1910<br>Sidney Austin 1896–1904}} {{s-aft|after=Austin Austin}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=Cole Aspinall}} {{s-ttl|title=Solicitor-General of Victoria|years=April 1870 - June 1871}} {{s-aft|after=Howard Spensley}} {{s-bef|before=George Kerferd}} {{s-ttl|title=Attorney-General of Victoria|years=1886–1890}} {{s-aft|after=William Shiels}} {{s-bef|before=Sir William Zeal}} {{s-ttl|title=President of the Victorian Legislative Council|years=1901–1910}} {{s-aft|after=John Mark Davies}} {{s-aca}} {{s-bef|before=Sir John Madden}} {{s-ttl|title=Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne|years=1897–1910}} {{s-aft|after=Sir John MacFarland}} {{s-end}}
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