Robert Stanley Dixon was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire on 21 June 1891 and studied at Liverpool University School of Architecture from where he graduated with a B.Arch. By the late mid-1920s he had moved to Guildford, Surrey where with Norman Dennis Quick (1895-1973) he formed the architectural partnership Dixon & Quick which had an office first at 25 High Street Guildford and then, from 1927 at 180 High Street, Guildford, Surrey. In c.1930 Frederick John Whitlock Hodgson (1882-1971) joined the practice which was renamed Hodgson, Dixon & Quick. The firm's office was located at 201 High Street, Guildford, Surrey. By 1936 Hodgson had with withdrawn from the practice which reverted to its original name, Dixon & Quick. They also moved to a new office at 8 Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey.
Dixon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1934. He died in Taunton, Somerset on 30 December 1975