page_title: Robertus Dixon
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Robertus Dixon / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Robert Dixon Bt.
context_page_description: Robertus de Fenwicke Dixon was an English clergyman and theologian best known as the last Lord Prebendary of Rochester. He is the great grandfather of the famous surveyor Jeremiah Dixon and thrice great uncle to Sir Raylton Dixon.
context_section_description: Dixon was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, to Baronet 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. His mother was the daughter of Sir William Fenwick, 2nd Baronet, and also a wealthy heiress following the death of her brother Sir John Fenwick 3rd Baronet 1701. He was sent to Magdalen College, Oxford to study for the priesthood age 14.
caption: Sir James Dixon 2nd Bt.
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