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Isidore Montague Gluckstein

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Isidore Montague Gluckstein (2 November 1890 – 16 January 1975) was managing director, then chairman, then president of J. Lyons and Co., a restaurant chain, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate created in 1884 that dominated British mass-catering in the first half of the twentieth century.[1]

Isidore Montague Gluckstein was the son of Montague Gluckstein, chairman of J. Lyons and Co.[1] He was educated at St Paul's, followed by Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and was severely wounded in World War I.[1]

He was managing director of J. Lyons and Co. from 1940–56, chairman from 1956-61, and president from 1961.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d W. Rubinstein; Michael A. Jolles (27 January 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 657. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. Retrieved 25 November 2016.