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John Reith, 1st Baron Reith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (669 words) |
 | Born at Stonehaven in Scotland, 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. |
| 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 and apprenticed him an engineer at the North British Locomotive Company. |
| Reith oversaw the vesting of the company in a new organisation, the BBC, formed under royal charter and became its first Director-General from January 1, 1927 to June 30, 1938. |
| Reith, John C.W. (615 words) |
| Reith was born the fifth son of a Scottish minister and trained in Glasgow as an engineer. |
| Reith felt increasingly under-utilized at the BBC by the late 1930s--the system he had built and the key people he had selected were all doing their jobs well and the system hummed relatively smoothly. |
| Reith's strong views, conviction that he was nearly always right, and dour personality made it difficult for him to readily get along with a rapidly-changing postwar British scene. |
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