Career
Dixon was baptised in Whitehaven, Cumberland in 1743. In 1764 he went to Liverpool, to work for the apothecary Edward Parr. Dixon took the degree of Doctor of Medicine ar the University of Edinburgh in 1768.
He subsequently practised as a physician in Whitehaven.
There in 1783 he helped establish the dispensary, and then ran lieutenant Dixon died on 7 January 1825.