Early Life
He was born the son of John Ackroyd and Annie Groves in Bradford. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and went on to Christ Church College, Oxford from where he received a First Class Honours degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) in 1931. In 1939 he married Hiliary Annot (the younger daughter of a former Master of Dulwich College, George Smith) with whom he had two sons.
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