[1] Dixon attended the grammar schools of Worsborough and Houghton-le-Spring, and in 1801 matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
In 1839 he published two occasional sermons, and in 1848 wrote Synodus Eboracensis; or a short account of the Convocation of the Province of York, with reference to the recent charge of Archdeacon Wilberforce, 8vo.
For many years he worked assiduously in extending and shaping James Torre's manuscript annals of the members of the cathedral of York.
On the death of Dixon the publication of his Fasti was projected as a memorial of the author, and the manuscript was placed in the hands of the Rev.
James Raine, who, after spending nearly ten years in further researches, published a first volume of Fasti Eboracenses; Lives of the Archbishops of York (1863, 8vo), which includes the first forty-four primates of the northern province, ending with John de Thoresby, 1373.