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

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Career

The son of Benjamin Bately Ackroyd and Emily Armitage, he attended school in

Dewsbury Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudder ...

, followed by the

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.Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books), 1999. Volume 1, page 22. He gained the rank of captain in the

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and fought in the

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. In 1940 he was a Common Councillor of the City of London. In 1945 he was an

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and

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for the

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. He was the Visiting Magistrate of Holloway Prison from 1945 to 1955. He served for a year as a

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in 1949-50 and as Lord Mayor of London in 1955–56. He was created a

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'of Dewsbury' on 8 May 1956. In 1956 the

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awarded him an honorary Doctoral Decree of Law. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Kent (1962) and

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for 1964–65. From 1964 to 1967 Sir Cuthbert was the Governor of the Irish Society. He was also a Fellow of the

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Private life

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

John Robert Whyte Ackroyd The Ackroyd Baronetcy, of Dewsbury in the West Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 5 July 1956 for Cuthbert Ackroyd, Lord Mayor of London between 1955 and 1956. the title is held ...

, 2nd Baronet (1932–1995) *Christopher Lovell Ackroyd (born 1934) On his death in 1973 he was succeeded in the baronetage by his eldest son.

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*'ACKROYD, Sir Cuthbert (Lowell)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Ackroyd, Sir Cuthbert Lowell, 1st Baronet 1892 births 1973 deaths Alumni of the University of London Royal Artillery officers Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 20th-century lord mayors of London 20th-century English politicians Deputy Lieutenants of Kent British Army personnel of World War I High Sheriffs of Kent