{{short description|New Zealand judge}} {{Other people}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Sir Trevor Henry | image = Justice Sir Trevor Henry in 1971. NZ Herald.jpg | image_size = | alt = Henry in 1971 | caption = Henry in 1971 | birth_name = Trevor Ernest Henry | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1902|5|9}} | birth_place = Thames, New Zealand | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2007|6|20|1902|5|9}} | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Lawyer, jurist }} '''Sir Trevor Ernest Henry''' (9 May 1902 – 20 June 2007) was a New Zealand jurist and member of the well known Henry family.
==Biography== Henry was born in Thames in 1902,<ref name="NZH obituary">{{cite news | title=Obituary: Sir Trevor Henry | date=30 June 2007 | work=New Zealand Herald}}</ref> and was the son of John and Edith Henry. He was the eldest of the three sons who include Jack Henry and Clive Henry. He studied law at Auckland University College before being admitted as a barrister in 1925.<ref name="NZH obituary"/>
He was one of the founding partners of the Auckland law firm, Wilson Henry (now Hesketh Henry), and was involved in several high-profile cases during the 1930s, including the murder trial of Eric Mareo and Dove-Myer Robinson's landmark lawsuit to prevent the Auckland Drainage Board discharging sewage in Auckland Harbour.<ref name="NZH obituary"/>
Henry was raised to the bench of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 1955, the same year that his son, John Henry was raised to the bar.<ref name="NZH obituary"/> He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1970 New Year Honours for his services to the New Zealand justice system.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=45001 |date=1 January 1970 |page=41 |supp=3}}</ref> In 1984, Sir Trevor and John made New Zealand legal history as the first father and son to sit together on a High Court bench in New Zealand. Sir Trevor was also a Justice of the Fijian Court of Appeal and served a term as the Chief Justice of Tonga.<ref name="NZH 1 July 2007"/>
Henry continued his family's long history of community involvement, sitting on the 1936 New Zealand Olympic Games selection committee,<ref name="NZH obituary"/> serving three terms on the New Zealand Parole Board and chairing the New Zealand War Pensions Appeal Board.<ref name="NZH 1 July 2007"/>
Henry's career was described as "meteoric." His inauguration ceremony at the Supreme Court in 1955 saw one of the largest-ever turnouts of Auckland society and Sir George Finlay remarked that Henry possessed a "wiseness, a sense of duty and an experience of men and affairs which should light his path to the end that justice should truly be done."<ref name="NZH 1 July 2007"/>
Sir Duncan McMullin described Henry as a humble man, devoid of pretence, with a meticulous approach to surveying evidence and a sharp mind to analyse issues at the heart of any case. He remained active in New Zealand law well into his 90s, offering opinions and publishing articles on a range of legally related subjects.<ref name="NZH obituary"/>
Following Henry's death in 2007 at the age of 105, the ''New Zealand Herald'' published allegations that he had secretly fathered two children with a young Māori woman from Te Arawa in the 1920s.<ref name="NZH 1 July 2007">{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=41&objectid=10448909|title=The judge, Maori Princess and the secret family|work=New Zealand Herald|date=1 July 2007|accessdate=1 July 2008|first=Catherine|last=Woulfe}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}} {{Henry family}}
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