Richard Dixon (1540-1594) was Bishop of Cork and Cloyne[1] and prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin[2].
His brother, William Dixon (1535-1608), established an estate at Heaton Royds, Yorkshire, in the 1500s.
Dixon was appointed Bishop of Cork on 6 June, 1570, by the influence of the Archbishop of York Edwin Sandys, his paternal first cousin.
On 16 April 1571, Irish Chancellor Robert Weston, archbishop of Dublin Adam Loftus (bishop), and Lord Justice William FitzWilliam joined in a report to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, advisor to Elizabeth I, that Dixon, despite being a married man, had ‘under colour of matrimony, retained a woman of suspected life as his wife’[5].
Sir Richard Dixon (1628-1684), married Mary, niece of Maurice Eustace (Lord Chancellor) in 1662, obtaining Barretstown Castle and an estate at Calverstown, County Kildare.[10].