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.

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 portrait painter.

Gluckstein was educated at St Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford. 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.

Gluckstein was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East at the 1931 general election, having contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1929. 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. 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.

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