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Louis Gluckstein

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Portrait by Walter Stoneman, 1937

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

Family

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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 sibling Gluck (born Hannah Gluckstein) was a portrait painter.

Career

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Gluckstein was educated at St Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford.[citation needed] He 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 dispatches 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 Member of Parliament until the election of Daniel Kawczynski in 2005.[citation needed]

He was a Conservative councillor on the London County Council for St Marylebone from 1950 until its abolition in 1964, then on the Greater London Council for Westminster and the City of London from 1964 to 1967, and as an Alderman from 1967 to 1973.[citation needed]

He was appointed as a King's 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]

Arms

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Coat of arms of Louis Gluckstein
Motto
L'Union Fait La Force[16]

References

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  1. ^ "No. 30393". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 November 1917. p. 12085.
  2. ^ "No. 34662". The London Gazette. 1 September 1939. p. 5987.
  3. ^ "No. 34684". The London Gazette. 15 September 1939. p. 6334.
  4. ^ "No. 35020". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 December 1940. pp. 7174–7192.
  5. ^ "No. 38775". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 December 1949. p. 5772.
  6. ^ "No. 37873". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 February 1947. pp. 651–652.
  7. ^ "No. 33769". The London Gazette. 6 November 1931. p. 7142.
  8. ^ "No. 34223". The London Gazette. 26 November 1935. p. 7502.
  9. ^ United Kingdom general election results, 1950
  10. ^ "No. 37160". The London Gazette. 3 July 1945. p. 3463.
  11. ^ "No. 39505". The London Gazette. 1 April 1952. p. 1827.
  12. ^ "No. 39863". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 May 1953. p. 2941.
  13. ^ "No. 39904". The London Gazette. 3 July 1953. p. 3676.
  14. ^ "No. 43200". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1963. p. 10.
  15. ^ "No. 44863". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1969. p. 5968.
  16. ^ "Lincoln's Inn Great Hall, Wd19 Gluckstein, L". Baz Manning. 13 July 2009. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Nottingham East
1931–1945 		Succeeded by
Civic offices
Preceded by Chair of the Greater London Council
1968–1969 		Succeeded by
Leslie Freeman
Political offices
Preceded by Chairman of the Finance Committee of London County Council
1967–1968 		Succeeded by
Roland Freeman
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