Cuthbert Ackroyd

Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Baronet DL, JP (4 September 1892 – 11 April 1973) was the 628th Lord Mayor of London.

Career

The son of Benjamin Bately Ackroyd and Emily Armitage, he attended school in Dewsbury, followed by the University of London.[1]

He gained the rank of Captain in the Royal Artillery[1] and fought in the First World War.[1]

In 1940 he was a Common Councillor of the City of London.[1] In 1945 he was an Alderman and Justice of the Peace for the City of London.[1] He was the Visiting Magistrate of Holloway Prison from 1945 to 1955.[1] He served for a year as a Sheriff of the City of London in 1949-50 and as Lord Mayor of London in 1955–56. [1] He was created a Baronet 'of Dewsbury' on 8 May 1956.[2]

In 1956 the University of Leeds awarded him an honorary Doctoral Decree of Law.[1] He was Deputy Lieutenant of Kent (1962) and High Sheriff of Kent for 1964–65.[1] From 1964 to 1967 Sir Cuthbert was the Governor of the Irish Society. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[1]

Private Life

He married Joyce Wallace Whyte, daughter of Robert Whyte, on 14 June 1927, and had two children:[1]

• John Robert Whyte Ackroyd, 2nd Baronet (1932–1995)
• Christopher Lovell Ackroyd (born 1934)

On his death in 1973 he was succeeded in the baronetage by his eldest son.[1]

References

1. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books), 1999. Volume 1, page 22.
2. "No. 40824". The London Gazette. 6 July 1956. p. 3949.

Sources

• ‘ACKROYD, Sir Cuthbert (Lowell)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007