Lord Reith

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Lord Reith was the founding director-general of the BBC and a key architect of British public service broadcasting in the early 20th century.

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Lord Reith canonical 2
Baron Reith 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Scottish person
broadcasting executive
director-general
human
member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom
birthDate 1889-07-20
conflict World War I
surface form: First World War
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfElevationToPeerage 1940
deathDate 1971-06-16
education Gresham’s School NERFINISHED
Royal Technical College, Glasgow NERFINISHED
The Glasgow Academy NERFINISHED
employer British Broadcasting Corporation NERFINISHED
familyName Reith NERFINISHED
fullName John Charles Walsham Reith NERFINISHED
gender male
givenName John NERFINISHED
honorificTitle 1st Baron Reith NERFINISHED
influenced BBC editorial standards
British public service broadcasting model
global public broadcasting systems
knownFor Reithian principles of broadcasting
formulating the BBC public service broadcasting ethos
founding director-general of the BBC
language English
memberOf Privy Council
surface form: Privy Council of the United Kingdom
militaryService British Army
mottoOfBroadcasting inform, educate and entertain
nobleTitle Baron Reith NERFINISHED
Baron Reith of Stonehaven NERFINISHED
notableWork development of British public service broadcasting
establishment of the BBC as a public corporation
occupation broadcaster
civil servant
engineer
politician
placeOfBirth Kincardineshire NERFINISHED
Scotland
Stonehaven NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Edinburgh NERFINISHED
Scotland NERFINISHED
positionHeld Chairman of the BBC
Director-General of the BBC NERFINISHED
Managing Director of the BBC
Member of the House of Lords
Minister of Information
Postmaster General of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED
religion Presbyterian
surface form: Presbyterianism

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John nobleTitle Lord Reith
subject surface form: John Reith
this entity surface form: Baron Reith