Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd

Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Baronet (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.

He gained the rank of captain in the Royal Artillery

In 1956 the University of Leeds awarded him an honorary Doctoral Decree of Law. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Kent (1962) 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: 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.