Thomas Ackroyd

Thomas Raven Ackroyd (7 August 1861 – 26 April 1946) was an English bank manager and Liberal Party politician.

[1] They had at least one son, Charles Winstanley Ackroyd, born in 1894, who emigrated to Australia in 1916 and served in the armed forces before being killed in action in October 1917.

[2] In religion, Ackroyd was a prominent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and acted as a lay preacher.

[11] This time Labour did not intervene, and, although there was an independent candidate (who lost his deposit), Ackroyd took the seat from Hurst with a majority of 3,113 votes.

[10] By 1924, however, the Tory Party had revived, and in a straight fight with Hurst, Ackroyd lost his seat by a majority of 4,009.