He was the son of Sir Thomas Royden, 1st Baronet (1831–1917), a Conservative politician and head of the Thomas Royden & Sons shipping company.

The younger Thomas inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1917, and went on to become chairman of the Cunard Line.

He was ennobled on 28 January 1944 as Baron Royden, of Frankby in the County Palatine of Chester.

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