Английская Википедия:Cuthbert Ackroyd
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Baronet DL, JP (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.[1]
He gained the rank of captain in the Royal Artillery[1] and fought in the First World War.[1]
In 1940 he was a Common Councillor of the City of London.[1] In 1945 he was an Alderman and Justice of the Peace for the City of London.[1] He was the Visiting Magistrate of Holloway Prison from 1945 to 1955.[1] 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.[1] He was created a Baronet 'of Dewsbury' on 8 May 1956.[2]
In 1956 the University of Leeds awarded him an honorary Doctoral Decree of Law.[1] He was Deputy Lieutenant of Kent (1962) and High Sheriff of Kent for 1964–65.[1] From 1964 to 1967 Sir Cuthbert was the Governor of the Irish Society. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[1]
Private life
He married Joyce Wallace Whyte, daughter of Robert Whyte, on 14 June 1927, and had two children:[1]
- 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.[1]
References
Sources
- 'ACKROYD, Sir Cuthbert (Lowell)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
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