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	John Reith, 1st Baron Reith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith KT GCVO GBE CB TD PC (20 July 1889–16 June 1971) was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
		Born at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Reith was the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Revd Dr George Reith, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland.
		In 1922 Reith felt that King George V should use the new medium of radio to speak to the nation as one family.
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		John Charles Walsham Reith - 1st Baron Reith KT GCVO GBE CB TD PC, 20 July 1889â“16 June 1971, was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established teh tradition 0f independent public service broadcasting inside teh United Kingdom.
		Reith was an indolent child who had used his intelligence to escape hard work but he was genuinely disappointed when his father refused to support any further education & apprenticed him an engineer at teh North British Locomotive Company.
		In 1922 Reith felt that King George V should use teh new medium 0f radio to speak to teh nation as one family.
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	Reith John Charles Walsham 1st Baron Reith of Stonehaven - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reith, John Charles Walsham, 1st Baron Reith of Stonehaven
		Reith, John Charles Walsham, 1st Baron Reith of Stonehaven (1889-1971), creator of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), born in Stonehaven,...
		Barons' War, the civil wars fought in England between King John and the barons (1215-1217) and later between his son, Henry III and the barons...
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		It is in this spirit that the BBC annually invites a leading figure to deliver a series of Reith lectures in his memory using the medium of radio to advance greater public understanding of their field.
		He described (1842) the histologic structure of the nephron, the functional unit of the kidney, where the process of of urine takes place as a by-product of blood filtration that is carried on in the kidney.
		(1st Baronet, original surname Kay) was a physician, public-health reformer, and chief founder of the English system of publicly financed elementary education.
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	Famous Scots
		Buchan, John 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875 - 1940) Buchan was elected to the House of Commons in 1927; in 1935 King George V named him governor-general of Canada, born in Perth, the son of a Free Church of Scotland minister.
		Knox, John (c1513 - 1572) "The Thundering Scot" - Scottish Reformer and founder of Presbyterianism in Scotland, Historians report that Queen Mary once said, "I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe." The Roman Catholic queen spoke wisely, for Knox would prove to be instrumental in her downfall.
		Reith, John (1889 - 1971) born in Stonehaven, Scotland.
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	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
		Despite being ridiculed by English poets and literary standard-makers John Dryden in MacFlecknoe and Alexander Pope in the Dunciad, Ogilby was put in charge of the poetic part of the coronation ceremony of Charles II by the king himself.
		Born in what is now Angus, John Playfair, a geologist and mathematician, made many valuable contributions to our study of the earth's features.
		Indeed, Pringle's suggestion, based on experience as a physician in the armed services, that military hospitals be treated as sanctuaries mutually protected by belligerents on both sides eventually led to the establishment of the Red Cross in 1864.
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	George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon:
		Major George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon, PC (15 May 1871 – 24 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served in a number of ministerial positions in the inter-war years.
		He served as Minister of Pensions himself 1922-24, 1924-29 and 1931-35 and was then appointed Postmaster General in 1935, serving until 1940.
		In April 1940, Tryon was elevated to the peerage as 1st Baron Tryon and made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and First Commissioner of Works.
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	John Reith, 1st Baron Reith information - Search.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-9.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Right Honourable John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (July 20 1889 - June 16 1971),Sir John Reith (1927-), then Baron Reith (1940-) established the British tradition of independent public service broadcasting.
		On December 14 1922 Reith became the general manager of the British Broadcasting Company, an organisation formed by manufacturers to provide broadcasts to foster demand for wireless sets.
		Reith oversaw the vesting of the company in a new organisation, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), formed under royal charter and became its first Director-General from January 1 1927 to June 30 1938.
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	John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1889-1971), Administrator; first Director General of the BBC
		John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1889-1971), Administrator; first Director General of the BBC
		Under Reith's leadership, the BBC established its headquarters at Broadcasting House in 1932.
		Throughout the thirties, until his departure in 1938, Reith steadily broadened the range of its activities.
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	Overview of John Charles Walsham Reith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reith was born in Stonehaven, and educated at the Glasgow Academy and Gresham's School (Norfolk, England).
		Reith built the BBC into the world-respected institution it remains today.
		In 1948 the BBC inaugurated the Reith Lectures to honour his contribution to public service broadcasting and invited speakers have included Bertrand Russell (1948), Robert Oppenheimer (1953), Sir Edward Appleton (1956), Lord McCluskey (1986) and HRH Prince of Wales (2000).
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		Probate Dublin to Maxwell John Carpendale, Lieutenant-colonel and Wiliam Kilroy, Surveyor.
		Reith of the B.B.C., who asked him to become his deputy with the title of controller, a post he held until his retirement in 1938, with latterly a change in title to Deputy Director General.
		Late in 1914, John became the first Commandant of the civilian prisoner of war camp at Knockaloe on the Isle of Man until he was suceeded by Lieut.-Colonel F. Panzera early in 1916.
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		John Charles Walsham, 1st Baron Reith of Stonehaven.
		Originally an engineer, he knew nothing about broadcasting when he got the job, but believed that broadcasting should aim to 'entertain and inform'.
		John Birt was his predecessor, John Humphrys is the hard hitting Radio Presenter, and Adam Westbrook will run the BBC one day.
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	JULY
		1957: The 17-year-old John Lennon was appearing at a church fete with his Quarrymen, when a friend introduced him to the 15-year-old Paul McCartney.
		1889: Birth in Scotland of Sir John (Charles Walsham) Reith, 1st Baron.
		One of them, John F., became President; another, Robert, became attorney-general of the US (and both were assassinated); another, Edward, became a senator and might have become President but for the Chappaquiddick incident.
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		From the Apophoreta of Imperial Rome to the ersatz grandeur of Las Vegas, from ritual divination to weekly lottery fever, individuals have pitted themselves against the chaotic forces of Fate.
		Gerda Reith examines the enduring appeal of gambling, exploring its complex relation to our underlying conceptions of the world, and to the social and...
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	Reader's Guide to British History -- Thematic Entries List
		Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
		Rawdon-Hastings, Francis, 1st Marquis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira
		Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquis Curzon of Kedleston
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	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.dictionary-of-meaning.com ◄:::
		The Company, with John Reith as general manager, became the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927 when it was granted a Royal Charter of incorporation and ceased to be privately owned.
		Some have argued that a current of anti-BBC thinking exists in many parts of the political spectrum and that, since the BBC's theoretical impartiality means they will broadcast many views and opinions, people will see the bias they wish to see.
		Quite often domestic audiences have affectionately referred to the BBC as the Beeb, or as Auntie; the latter originating in the somewhat fuddy duddy Auntie knows best attitude dating back to the early days when John Reith, 1st Baron ReithJohn Reith was in charge.
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		Description: TLS 10/25/1983 to Harman Grisewood from secretary to John Betjeman, sending news of the latter's recovery from a recent stay in hospital.
		Description: Correspondence to Harman Grisewood from Baron Charles Hill of Luton, postmaster general and a chairman of the BBC: 2 ALS 8/8/1967 and 3/11/1969.
		Description: Correspondence to Harman Grisewood from John Bernard McElligott, Grisewood's teacher at Ampleforth: ALS undated and 7 ALS dated 2/2/1963; 7/16/1969; 7/21/1969; 9/13/1969 with attached typescript of address given by McElligott to the Society of St. Gregory Summer School, August 1969; 2/23/1970; 5/3/1970; 3/23/1971.
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		August 14, 1888 John Logie Baird British original of tv technology (d. 1946).
		July 20, 1889 John Reith, 1st Baron Reith First Director-General of the BBC (d. 1971).
		1995) May 4, 1919 John Hope U.S. meteorologist (The Weather Channel), named Hurricane Camille for her daughter (d.
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	NYPL, Miscellaneous Personal Name Files (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reith, Sir John C.W. See: Carnegie Autograph Collection
		Ripon, 1st Earl of, Frederick John Robinson, 1782-1859
		Rutledge, John, 1739-1800 (Brother of Edward Rutledge, 1749-1800)
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