UK Elections Info

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Born: 20 July 1889

Died: 16 June 1971

1st Baron Reith - 21 October 1940

Knighted - 17 February 1927

Member of Privy Council - 16 January 1940

husband of Muriel Katharine Odhams

son of Very Rev George Reith

son of Adah Mary Weston

Glasgow Academy

Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk

Royal Technical College, Glasgow

Minister of Information	1940	1940
Minister of State for Transport	May 1940	October 1940
Minister of Works	October 1940	February 1942

1 February 1940		Southampton	Nationalist	Unopposed
12 October 1940 Elevation of Rt Hon Sir John Reith to the Peerage - Baron Reith.