Louis Gluckstein

Louis Gluckstein

Colonel Sir Louis Halle Gluckstein, GBE, TD, KC, DL (23 February 1897 – 27 October 1979) was a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician.

Career

Gluckstein was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment during the First World War [LondonGazette|issue=30393|supp=yes|startpage=12085|date=20 November 1917|accessdate=2007-12-19] and also saw action as a captain [LondonGazette|issue=34662|startpage=5987|date=1 September 1939|accessdate=2007-12-19] in the Second World War, [LondonGazette|issue=34684|startpage=6334|date=15 September 1939|accessdate=2007-12-19] being Mentioned in Despatches in the early part of the war. [LondonGazette|issue=35020|supp=yes|startpage=7174|endpage=7192|date=20 December 1940|accessdate=2007-12-19] He remained in the Territorial Army until his retirement in 1948, [LondonGazette|issue=38775|supp=yes|startpage=5772|date=6 December 1949|accessdate=2007-12-19] and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1947. [LondonGazette|issue=37873|supp=yes|startpage=651|endpage=652|date=4 February 1947|accessdate=2007-12-19]

Gluckstein was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East at the 1931 general election, [LondonGazette|issue=33769|startpage=7142|date=6 November 1931|accessdate=2007-12-19] having contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1929. He held the seat [LondonGazette|issue=34223|startpage=7502|date=26 November 1935|accessdate=2007-12-19] until his defeat at the 1945 general election by the Labour candidate James Harrison. Gluckstein stood again in 1950, losing again to Harrison. [ [http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge50/i15.htm United Kingdom general election results, 1950] ] At 2.02m (6'7.5"), he is believed to have been the tallest-ever Member of Parliament.

He was a Conservative councillor on the Greater London Council (GLC) for the Cities of London and Westminster from 1964 to 1967, and an Alderman from 1967 to 1973.

He was appointed as a Kings Counsel on 29 June 1945. [LondonGazette|issue=37160|startpage=3463|date=3 July 1945|accessdate=2007-12-19]

He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London in 1952, [LondonGazette|issue=39505|startpage=1827|date=1 April 1952|accessdate=2007-12-19] knighted in the Coronation Honours of 1953, [LondonGazette|issue=39863|supp=yes|startpage=2941|date=26 May 1953|accessdate=2007-12-19] [LondonGazette|issue=39904|startpage=3676|date=3 July 1953|accessdate=2007-12-19] was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1964 New Year Honours, [LondonGazette|issue=43200|supp=yes|startpage=10|date=31 December 1963|accessdate=2007-12-19] and was promoted to Knight Grand Cross (GBE) in the 1969 Queen's Birthday Honours. [LondonGazette|issue=44863|supp=yes|startpage=5968|date=6 June 1969|accessdate=2007-12-19]

Family

Gluckstein was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Joseph Gluckstein whose brothers Isidore and Montague founded the J. Lyons and Co. coffee house and catering empire in London. His mother, Francesca Halle, was an American opera singer, and his elder sister Hannah was a noted portrait painter.

References

*cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 |origdate= |origyear=1969 |edition= 3rd edition |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |id= ISBN 0-900178-06-X
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External links

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