[1] Dixon was initially a teacher, working as a housemaster at Warkworth House, Cambridge, for three years.
[1] He was recruited for service in Queensland by Bishop William Webber, and arrived in the colony in 1899, being assigned to Southport, then a parish covering an immense distance from Beenleigh to the New South Wales border.
[1] In 1903 the schoolboys nicknamed him 'Jimmy', after the Aboriginal outlaw, Jimmy Governor, who had been hanged in 1901.
[1] Dixon was an honorary canon of St John's Cathedral, Brisbane from 1919.
In 1930 he was appointed canon residentiary and in 1931 Dean, but relinquished that office on becoming bishop coadjutor in 1932.