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John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, (20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971) was a British broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922 he was employed by the BBC (British Broadcasting Company Ltd.) as its general manager; in 1923 he became its managing director and in 1927 he was employed as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation created under a Royal Charter. His concept of broadcasting as a way of educating the masses marked for a long time the BBC and similar organisations around the world. ==Early life== 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 United Free Church of Scotland (later amalgamated with Church of Scotland, and not to be confused with the Free Church of Scotland). He was to carry the strict Presbyterian religious convictions of the Kirk forward into his adult life. Reith was educated at The Glasgow Academy then at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk.〔''I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School'' by S.G.G. Benson and Martin Crossley Evans (James & James, London, 2002)〕 His father refused to support any further education and apprenticed him as an engineer at the North British Locomotive Company. Reith was also a part-time soldier in the 1st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers and later the 5th Scottish Rifles. In 1914, Reith left Glasgow for London. Though he readily found work at the Royal Albert Dock, his commission in the 5th Scottish Rifles sent him serving in World War I. He was struck in the cheek by a bullet in October 1915, at which time he was a Lieutenant, and transferred to the Royal Engineers. He spent the next two years in the United States, supervising armament contracts, and became attracted to the country. He was promoted to Captain in 1917, before being transferred to the Royal Marine Engineers in 1918 as a Major. He returned to the Royal Engineers as a Captain in 1919. Reith resigned his Territorial Army commission in 1921. The end of the war found Reith returning to Glasgow as general manager of an engineering firm with Bowser becoming his assistant. In 1922, he returned to London, where he started working as secretary to the London Conservative group of MPs in the United Kingdom general election, 1922. That election's results were the first to be broadcast on the radio. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Reith, 1st Baron Reith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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