He was a freemason and founding member of University Lodge Sheffield 3911. Honours and styles. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1923, created a Baronet of Sheffield in the County of York in 1929, and raised to the peerage as Baron Riverdale, of Sheffield in the County of York, on 27 June 1935.

LONDON, July 7--Lord Riverdale, a leader of Great Britain's steel industry died at his home near Sheffield today. He was 84 years old. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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LORD RIVERDALE of Sheffield died at his home at Sheffield last Sunday, July 7. He was eighty-four, and up till a few years ago was chairman and managing director of Arthur Balfour and Co., Ltd., the steel manufacturing firm, which he entered as a youth.