Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Baronet (4 September 1892 – 11 April 1973) was the 628th Lord Mayor of London.
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.
[2] In 1956 the University of Leeds awarded him an honorary Doctoral Decree of Law.
[1] He married Joyce Wallace Whyte, daughter of Robert Whyte, on 14 June 1927, and had two children:[1] On his death in 1973 he was succeeded in the baronetage by his eldest son.