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Reith is a Scottish surname, and may refer to: * John Reith (general) * John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcasting executive (Lord Reith of the BBC) * Douglas Reith, British actor * Peter Reith, Australian politician Origin The origin of this Scottish surname is uncertain. However, there are explanations as to its origin: * It may be an anglicized and reduced form of ''Mac Raith'', meaning 'son of grace' (see McRae (other), McRae). * Another possibility is that it is a habitational name and comes from a Cumbric or Pictish cognate of Welsh language, Welsh ''rhyd'', meaning 'ford'. * A less likely explanation is that it denoted somebody originally from Reeth, Northern England. * It could, at least in some cases, be a variation of Reid (other), Reid. In North America, this surname has absorbed several like-sounding surnames. See also * Baron Reith * Reith (Magna Carta) * Wreath {{surname [Baidu] |
John Reith (general)
General (United Kingdom), General Sir John George Reith, (born 17 November 1948) is a retired senior British Army officer who was the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from October 2004 to October 2007. Military career Reith was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), Parachute Regiment on 19 December 1969. He was promoted to lieutenant on 19 June 1971 and to captain on 19 December 1975. He was further promoted to major on 30 September 1980, lieutenant colonel on 30 June 1985 and to colonel on 30 June 1989. Early appointments included 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment as a company commander, tours of Northern Ireland (for which he was mentioned in despatches on 11 November 1986 and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 31 October 1989), a tour of Yugoslav Wars, Yugoslavia (for which he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service on 22 November 1994), command of 1st B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (; 20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971) was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922, he was employed by the BBC, then the British Broadcasting Company, 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 BBC, 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. An engineer by profession, and standing at tall, he was a larger-than-life figure who was a pioneer in his field. Early life Born at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Reith was the fifth son and the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Rev. George Reith, a Scottish Presbyterian minister of the College Church at Glasgow and late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Reith
Douglas Reith is a British actor and teacher. He is best known for his role as Lord Merton in the television series ''Downton Abbey'' (2010–2015), as well as its two follow-up films. Early life Reith was born in Melton, Suffolk. He studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He began acting in the late 1970s, beginning with an appearance in '' International Velvet'' (1978) alongside Tatum O'Neal and Christopher Plummer. Career He worked as an announcer and presenter at BBC Radio 3 for five years before leaving to study Greats at Christ Church, Oxford for four years beginning in 1989. He worked as a teacher, including at Westminster School, before resuming his acting career. Reith joined the cast of ''Downton Abbey'' as Lord Merton in 2012, and alongside the cast was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards. He reprised the role in the films ''Downton Abbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Reith
Peter Keaston Reith (15 July 1950 – 8 November 2022) was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1982 to 1983 and from 1984 to 2001, representing the Liberal Party. He was the party's deputy leader from 1990 to 1993, and served as a minister in the Howard government. Reith was born in Melbourne and studied law at Monash University. He settled in Cowes, Victoria, and served on the Phillip Island Shire Council from 1976 to 1981 (including as shire president for a period). Reith was elected to parliament at the 1982 Flinders by-election. He lost his seat at the 1983 federal election, but won it back the following year. In 1990, Reith was elected deputy leader of the Liberal Party under John Hewson. He was replaced by Michael Wooldridge after the 1993 election. In the Howard government, Reith served as Minister for Industrial Relations (1996–1997), Minister for Small Business (1997–2001), Minister for Employment and Workplace Relation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McRae (other)
McRae is a Scottish Gaelic surname. It may refer to: People * McRae (surname) Places Canada * McRae, Alberta United States * McRae, Alabama * McRae, Arkansas * McRae, Florida * McRae, Georgia ** McRae–Helena, Georgia, formed by the 2015 merger of the two cities * McRae, Virginia * Fort McRae, a Union Army post in what is now Sierra County, New Mexico Other uses * CSS ''McRae'', a Confederate gunboat in the American Civil War * McRae River, a river in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island * McRae River (Western Australia), a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia * McRae's McRae's was a mid-range regional department store chain founded and based in Jackson, Mississippi, with locations in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida. The nameplate was in existence for more than a century. History Samuel P. McRae f ..., an American department store chain See also * Clan MacRae, Scottish clan * Governor McRae (other) * Justice McR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumbric
Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the ''Hen Ogledd'' or "Old North", in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. It was closely related to Old Welsh and the other Brittonic languages. Place-name evidence suggests Cumbric may also have been spoken as far south as Pendle and the Yorkshire Dales. The prevailing view is that it became extinct in the 12th century, after the incorporation of the Kingdom of Strathclyde into the Kingdom of Scotland. Problems with terminology Dauvit Broun sets out the problems with the various terms used to describe the Cumbric language and its speakers.Broun, Dauvit (2004): 'The Welsh identity of the kingdom of Strathclyde, ca 900-ca 1200', ''Innes Review'' 55, pp 111–80. The people seem to have called themselves the same way that the Welsh called themselves (most likely from reconstructed Brittonic meaning "fellow countrymen"). The Welsh and the Cumbric-speaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictish
Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from late antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Virtually no direct attestations of Pictish remain, short of a limited number of geographical and personal names found on monuments and early medieval records in the area controlled by the kingdoms of the Picts. Such evidence, however, shows the language to be an Insular Celtic language – probably a variant of the Brittonic language once spoken in most of Great Britain. The prevailing view in the second half of the 20th century was that Pictish was a non-Indo-European language isolate, or that a non-Indo-European Pictish and Brittonic Pictish language coexisted. Pictish was replaced by – or subsumed into – Gaelic in the latter centuries of the Pictish period. During the reign of Donald II of Scotland (889–900), outsiders began to refer to the region as the kingdom of Alba rather than the kingdom of the Picts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic languages, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales by about 18% of the population, by some in England, and in (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). It is spoken by smaller numbers of people in Canada and the United States descended from Welsh immigrants, within their households (especially in Nova Scotia). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric". The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. Welsh and English are ''de jure'' official languages of the Senedd (the Welsh parliament), with Welsh being the only ''de jure'' official language in any part of the United Kingdom, with English being merely ''de facto'' official. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was 538,300 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reeth
Reeth is a village west of Richmond, North Yorkshire, Richmond in North Yorkshire, England, in the civil parish of Reeth, Fremington and Healaugh. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is the principal settlement of upper Swaledale. Etymology The origin of the name ''Reeth'' is unclear. It is possibly derived from the Germanic for 'place by the stream', although this claim can neither be confirmed nor refuted. Reeth could also have been derived from the Cumbric ''rith'' (cf. ''ryd'' in Modern Welsh, ''rys'' in Cornish language, Cornish ), meaning 'Ford (crossing), Ford'. Either would make sense as Reeth is located near two shallow rivers. History In Anglo-Saxons, Saxon times, Reeth was only a settlement on the forest edge, but by the time of the Norman conquest of England, Norman conquest it had grown sufficiently in importance to be noted in the ''Domesday Book''. Later it became a centre for hand-knitting and the local lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
