 in 1892.Wrixon was the author of "Socialism being Notes on a Political Tour" (1896), "Jacob Shumate; or the People's March", a political novel (1903), (largely rewritten and issued as "Edward Fairlie Frankfort; or Politics among the People", in 1912), "The Pattern Nation", a dispassionate review of the trend towards socialism, but written from a conservative aspect (1906), "The Religion of the Common Man" (1909).Wrixon was vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne from 1897 to 1910, was appointed a trustee of the public library, museums and national gallery in 1902, and was elected vice-president of the trustees in 1905.