The Ackroyd Baronetcy, of Dewsbury in the West Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 5 July 1956 for Cuthbert Ackroyd

Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd, 1st Baronet

Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Baronet DL, JP was a Lord Mayor of London. The son of Benjamin Bately Ackroyd and Emily Armitage, he was created 1st Baronet Ackroyd, of Dewsbury on 8 May 1956...

, Lord Mayor of London

Lord Mayor of London

The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and...

 between 1955 and 1956. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baronet, who succeeded his father in 1995. He is an actor.

Ackroyd of Dewsbury, Yorkshire (1956)

• Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Baronet
  Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd, 1st Baronet
  Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Baronet DL, JP was a Lord Mayor of London. The son of Benjamin Bately Ackroyd and Emily Armitage, he was created 1st Baronet Ackroyd, of Dewsbury on 8 May 1956...
  
   (1892–1973)
• Sir John Robert Whyte Ackroyd, 2nd Baronet (1932–1995)
• Sir Timothy John Robert Whyte Ackroyd, 3rd Baronet (b. 1958)

The heir presumptive

Heir Presumptive

An heir presumptive or heiress presumptive is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir or heiress apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question...

is the present holder's brother Andrew John Ackroyd (b. 1961).