Colonel Sir Louis Halle Gluckstein GBE Territorial Decoration KC Doctor of Laws was a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician.
Background
Gluckstein was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Joseph Gluckstein whose brothers Isidore and Montague founded the J. Lyons and Company 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.
Education
Gluckstein was educated at Street Paul"s School and Lincoln College, Oxford.
Career
He was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment during the First World War and also saw action as a captain in the Second World War, being Mentioned in Despatches in the early part of the war. He remained in the Territorial Army until his retirement in 1948, and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1947. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1945 general election by the Labour candidate James Harrison.
Gluckstein stood again in 1950, losing again to Harrison.
He was appointed as a King"s Counsel on 29 June 1945.
Membership
36th United Kingdom Parliament. 37th United Kingdom Parliament]
Gluckstein was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Nottingham East at the 1931 general election, having contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1929. At 2.02m (6"75"), he is believed to have been the tallest Member of Parliament until the election of Daniel Kawczynski in 2005.
Personality
He was a Conservative councillor on the Greater London Council (Greater London Council) for the Cities of London and Westminster from 1964 to 1967, and an Alderman from 1967 to 1973.