Category:John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

**John Reith, 1st Baron Reith**
	British broadcasting executive and politician (1889–1971)
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Name in native language	John Reith, 1. Baron Reith;
Date of birth	20 July 1889; Stonehaven; John Charles Walsham Reith
Date of death	16 June 1971; Edinburgh
Place of burial	Rothiemurchus Forest;
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom;
Educated at	Gresham's School; The Glasgow Academy (1896–);
Occupation	politician; engineer; journalist; businessman;
Employer	BBC; William Beardmore and Company; HM Factory, Gretna;
Member of political party	Conservative Party;
Position held	Director-General of the BBC (1927–1938); member of the House of Lords (1940–1971); Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (1940–); member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1940–1940); Secretary of State for Transport (1940–1940); Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (1967–1968);
Native language	English;
Noble title	baron; Baron Reith (1, death, 1940–1971);
Father	George Reith;
Mother	Adah Mary Weston;
Child	Christopher John Reith; Marista Muriel Reith;
Spouse	Muriel Katharine Odhams (1921–1971);
Work location	London;
Award received	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (1934); Companion of the Order of the Bath (1945); Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (1939); Order of the Thistle (1969); Knight Bachelor;
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	Q320851; ISNI: 0000000121353487; VIAF ID: 59888047; GND ID: 11915482X; Library of Congress authority ID: nr94035576; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12819238f; IdRef ID: 137724071; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 071071512; NUKAT ID: n2009153025; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID: 31596; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007288454805171; Open Library ID: OL2021443A; IMDb ID: nm2618114
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English: John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith KT GCVO GBE CB TD PC (20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971) was a broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922 became the British Broadcasting Company's General, in 1923 its Managing Director, and in 1927 the first Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation, newly created under a Royal Charter.

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