Henry Dixon

Henry Dixon (1859 – 4 December 1928) was an Irish republican. He was a member of several nineteenth-century nationalist societies, a founding member of Sinn Féin, and a director of the Sinn Féin Printing & Publishing Company.

Dixon was a member of the Dublin branch of the Young Ireland Society (YIS), a literary and political organisation founded in 1881 to encourage political debate among Irish nationalists. Its members included Fred Allan, John MacBride and John Wyse Power, and it contained a strong element from the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a revolutionary secret society. In the spring of 1885 he gave a lecture to the Society on the need to protect Irish industry. The Dublin YIS foundered after 1886, and in 1887, when Fred Allan founded the National Club, a social club, with IRB money, Dixon ran the club's Literary Society with Patrick Lavelle. Both Dixon and Lavelle were IRB members. He remained politically and personally close to Griffith for the remainder of Griffith's life. When MacBride was sued for divorce by Maud Gonne, his wife of two years, Dixon, although also a friend of Gonne's, swore an affidavit in support of MacBride. and wrote to the Archbishop of Dublin, William Walsh, to complain about the lack of religious services at the camp. Walsh was able to arrange for a chaplain to be appointed. Dixon was released in December 1916. During the War of Independence Dixon was again arrested and interned at Ballykinlar. In 1921 he became manager of his son's solicitors firm. He was also active in the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.

Dixon died after being struck by a car as he left his office in Dublin on 4 December 1928, aged 69.