It was subsequently merged in the British-Australasian Tobacco Company Proprietary Limited, probably the largest business of its kind in Australia at the time.
This fund was not successful and Dixson's gift was devoted to educating British boys at Australian agricultural colleges.
One such cause was the Legion of Frontiersmen, a patriotic, paramilitary organisation formed in Britain in 1905 by Roger Pocock, a former constable with the North West Mounted Police and Boer War veteran, to bolster the defensive capacity of the British Empire.
Dixson was a noted horticulturist, becoming a member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales in 1887, and the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in 1898.
[9] She was a life governor of the Queen Victoria Homes for Consumptives,[2] the Crown Street Women's Hospital, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital[2] and of The Infants' Home Child and Family Services;[2] president of the women's branch of the Empire League,[2][10] and after its reorganisation, a life vice-president of the British Empire League in Australia;[2][11] the National Council of Women of New South Wales, and the Victoria League; president of the women's auxiliary of the Sydney City Mission; the only female patron of the Veterans' Home of New South Wales;[2] and vice-president of the New South Wales Home for Incurables, Ryde (to which they gave £20,000), and the Fresh Air League.