Background
Dixon was born in Heworth, Northumberland, to Sir James Dixon 2nd Baronet Hyewortone and Lady Catherine Fenwicke.
Dixon was born in Heworth, Northumberland, to Sir James Dixon 2nd Baronet Hyewortone and Lady Catherine Fenwicke.
His father James Dixon was a successful merchant and landowner of Scottish Border Reiver descent, who made his fortune trading in Ontario, Canada. He was sent to Magdalen College, Oxford to study for the priesthood age 14. Dixon secured large estates in Rochester from John Wilmot in the name of the Church, vastly increasing the wealth of the Clergy, including himself, who was made Lord Prebend of Rochester by the Bishop of Rochester.
They had two children, Sir Robert Dixon 4th Baronet and George Dixon.