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John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (/ ˈ r iː θ /; 20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971) was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
General Sir John George Reith, KCB, CBE (born 17 November 1948) is a retired senior British Army officer who was the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from October 2004 to October 2007.
John Reith may refer to: John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1889–1971), Scottish broadcasting executive; John Reith (British Army officer) (born 1948)
Baron Reith / ˈ r iː θ /, of Stonehaven in the County of Kincardine, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [2] It was created in 1940 for Sir John Reith, the first Director-General of the BBC. His only son, the second Baron, disclaimed the peerage for life in 1972. Since 2016, the title is held by the latter's son, the third Baron.
The Reith Lectures is a series of annual BBC radio lectures given by leading figures of the day. They are commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on Radio 4 and the World Service . The lectures were inaugurated in 1948 to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Lord Reith , the corporation's first director-general.
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith: 1889–1971 1968 Former Director-General of the BBC 187 Charles Maclean, Baron Maclean: 1916–1990 1969 Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire 188 Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie: 1914–1999 1971 Lord Lieutenant of Angus 189 Richard O'Connor: 1889–1981 1971 Former Lord Lieutenant of Ross and Cromarty 190
The founding of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English was due in large part to John Reith, who was the BBC's first managing editor. [3] Reith wanted to narrow down on-air pronunciations on his network, and in turn created this committee in an effort to set the standard. [ 3 ]
Reith is a Scottish surname, and may refer to: John Reith (general) John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcasting executive (Lord Reith of the BBC) Douglas Reith, British actor; Peter Reith, Australian politician