Louis Gluckstein

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

1 Career
2 Family
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

Gluckstein was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment during the First World War^[1] and also saw action as a captain^[2] in the Second World War,^[3] being Mentioned in Despatches in the early part of the war.^[4] He remained in the Territorial Army until his retirement in 1948,^[5] and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1947.^[6]

Gluckstein was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East at the 1931 general election,^[7] having contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1929. He held the seat^[8] until his defeat at the 1945 general election by the Labour candidate James Harrison. Gluckstein stood again in 1950, losing again to Harrison.^[9] 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.^[10]

He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London in 1952,^[11] knighted in the Coronation Honours of 1953,^[12]^[13] was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1964 New Year Honours,^[14] and was promoted to Knight Grand Cross (GBE) in the 1969 Queen's Birthday Honours.^[15]

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30393, page 12085, 20 November 1917. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: no. 34662, page 5987, 1 September 1939. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: no. 34684, page 6334, 15 September 1939. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 35020, pages 7174–7192, 20 December 1940. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38775, page 5772, 6 December 1949. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37873, pages 651–652, 4 February 1947. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: no. 33769, page 7142, 6 November 1931. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: no. 34223, page 7502, 26 November 1935. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ United Kingdom general election results, 1950
^ London Gazette: no. 37160, page 3463, 3 July 1945. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: no. 39505, page 1827, 1 April 1952. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 39863, page 2941, 26 May 1953. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: no. 39904, page 3676, 3 July 1953. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 43200, page 10, 31 December 1963. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44863, page 5968, 6 June 1969. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.

Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page