Isidore Gluckstein
Isidore Gluckstein (1851-1920)
1851 Born in Spitalfields the son of Samuel Gluckstein
1881 Cigar manufacturer, living in Islington, with Rose Gluckstein 29, Hannah Gluckstein 3, Barrett Gluckstein 2, Samuel Gluckstein 1[1]
1891 Tobacco manufacturer boarding in Brighton with Joseph Glickstein 35, and Samuel Joseph 39, also tobacco manufacturers, and others[2]
1901 Director of public company, living in Hampstead with Rose Gluckstein 49, Barnett S Gluckstein, manager tobacco manufacturer, 22, Samuel 20, Lena 18, Julia 16, Montague 14[3]
1920 Died in Sussex[4]
1920 Obituary. 'Mr. Isidore Gluckstein, one of the founders of the tobacco firm, and also J. Lyons and Co, Limited, died at Eastbourne yesterday in his 76th year. He was chairman of Messrs. Salmon and Gluckstein, and the Strand Palace Hotel Company. He was elder brother to Mr. Montagu Gluckstein. Their father was a wholesale tobacconist, and Mr. Isidore went into the family business, being the first to conceive the idea of a string of retail shops to be supplied by one wholesale source of supply. In 1895 the business was turned into a limited company with capital of £400,000. Its success continued, and in 1902 was so impregnable that the Salmon and Gluckstein Company was taken over the Imperial Tobacco Company to aid them in their fight with the American Tobacco Trust. They were guaranteed a dividend of 10 per cent, and the Messrs. Gluckstein remained in office as directors.'[5]