Cuthbert Ackroyd


Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Baronet DL, JP 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.
He gained the rank of Captain in the Royal Artillery and fought in the First World War.
In 1940 he was a Common Councillor of the City of London. In 1945 he was an Alderman and Justice of the Peace for the City of London. He was the Visiting Magistrate of Holloway Prison from 1945 to 1955. 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. He was created a Baronet 'of Dewsbury' on 8 May 1956.
In 1956 the University of Leeds awarded him an honorary Doctoral Decree of Law. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Kent and High Sheriff of Kent for 1964–65. From 1964 to 1967 Sir Cuthbert was the Governor of the Irish Society. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Private Life

He married Joyce Wallace Whyte, daughter of Robert Whyte, on 14 June 1927, and had two children:
On his death in 1973 he was succeeded in the baronetage by his eldest son.