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 dispatches 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 , he is believed to have been the tallest Member of Parliament until the election of
Daniel Kawczynski in 2005. 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. He was appointed as a
King's Counsel on 29 June 1945. He was appointed a
Deputy Lieutenant of the
County of London in 1952,
knighted in the
Coronation Honours of 1953, was made a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1964
New Year Honours, and was promoted to Knight Grand Cross (GBE) in the 1969
Queen's Birthday Honours. ==Arms==