{{Short description|628th Lord Mayor of London}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|Bt|DL|JP|FRSA}} | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Lord Mayor of London | term_start = 1955 | term_end = 1956 | birth_name = Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd | birth_date = 4 September 1892 | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|04|11|1892|09|04|df=yes}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Underwriter | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''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.<ref name=Burkes>Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books), 1999. Volume 1, page 22.</ref>
He gained the rank of captain in the Royal Artillery<ref name=Burkes/> and fought in the First World War.<ref name=Burkes/>
In 1940 he was a Common Councillor of the City of London.<ref name=Burkes/> In 1945 he was an Alderman and Justice of the Peace for the City of London.<ref name=Burkes/> He was the Visiting Magistrate of Holloway Prison from 1945 to 1955.<ref name=Burkes/> 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.<ref name=Burkes/> He was created a Baronet 'of Dewsbury' on 8 May 1956.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40824 |date=6 July 1956 |page=3949}}</ref>
In 1956 the University of Leeds awarded him an honorary Doctoral Decree of Law.<ref name=Burkes/> He was Deputy Lieutenant of Kent (1962) and High Sheriff of Kent for 1964–65.<ref name=Burkes/> From 1964 to 1967 Sir Cuthbert was the Governor of the Irish Society. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.<ref name=Burkes/>
==Private life== He married Joyce Wallace Whyte, daughter of Robert Whyte, on 14 June 1927, and had two children:<ref name=Burkes/> *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.<ref name=Burkes/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== *'ACKROYD, Sir Cuthbert (Lowell)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
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