Theodore Constantine, Baron Constantine of Stanmore, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetTheodore Constantine, Baron Constantine of Stanmore
British entrepreneur
Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1910
Date of Death: 13-Feb-2004
Profession: entrepreneur
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Theodore Constantine, Baron Constantine of Stanmore
- Theodore Constantine, Baron Constantine of Stanmore (15 March 1910 – 13 February 2004) was a British businessman and Conservative political activist who served as both the Chairman and the President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. Born to a tobacco importer of Greek origin, Constantine was educated at Acton College.
- During World War II, he served with the Royal Auxiliary Air Force as a plotter at Fighter Command's headquarters at Bentley Priory; he was awarded the Air Efficiency Award in 1945.
- After he was demobilized, he founded a hearing aid company that counted Sir Winston Churchill among its clients.In 1965, Constantine was involved in a public controversy as Chairman of the Harrow East Conservative Association.
- The sitting Conservative MP, Anthony Courtney, had been entrapped in Moscow by the KGB in a honeypot operation.
- Constantine urged Courtney to step down, but the latter refused; when Courtney was re-adopted as the Conservative candidate, Constantine resigned from the constituency party's executive.
- Courtney subsequently lost the seat in the 1966 general election, as Constantine had predicted.
- Courtney later successfully sued Constantine for slander, and was awarded £200 in damages.He served as the Chairmen of National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations during 1967-8 and its President from 1980-1. Constantine was appointed CBE in 1956, knighted in 1964, and made a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London in 1967.
- He served as High Sheriff of Greater London in 1967.
- He was made a life peer in 1981, as Baron Constantine of Stanmore, of Stanmore in Greater London.
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