Stanley Jack Rubinstein was a solicitor who specialised in copyright law, a novelist and historian.
Background
Rubinstein was born in Kensington, the eldest son of Joseph Samuel Rubinstein (1852-1915) and Isabella Alexandra Marks (1864-1960). Rubinstein followed his father as senior partner of the law firm Rubinstein, Nash & Company, where he also worked with his brothers Harold and Ronald at offices in Gray"s Inn. His father had established the practice in 1889 with Daniel Leggatt, as Leggatt, Rubinstein & Company
The firm developed an expertise in publishing matters.
Career
Prior to World War I, he ran a concert party, "The Mixed Pickles", who entertained youth cubs in London. He wrote and performed songs, some of which were published. Stanley Rubinstein married Vera Solomon in 1915.
The firm merged with Manches in 1994, and Penningtons bought Manches in a pre-pack administration in 2013.
Writing to The Times in 1927, he gave his address as Wrenhope, Frogmill Farm, Hurley, Berkshire. In 1967, he sat on an appeal committee to raise funds to purchase one of Thomas Hudson"s portraits of Handel (1756), for the National Portrait Gallery.
The appeal was successful. He was the chairman of Burke Publishing until 1975, and solicitor for the Henry Wood National Memorial Trust.
He appeared as a "castaway" on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 11 August 1969 where he discussed his proposals for introducing copyright protection for elaborated ideas.