{{short description|Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}
{{Infobox nobility title | name = Barony of Reith | image = 150px<br/>180px | image_size = | alt = | caption = ''Or, a cross engrailed sable, between four mullets gules, on a chief of the last a lion passant of the field''<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Landed Gentry Scotland|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Dewar, Peter Beauclerk |edition=19 |year= 2003 |pages= 1158–1159|ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-0-5}}</ref> | creation_date = 21 October 1940 | creation = | monarch = King George VI | peerage = Peerage of the United Kingdom | baronetage = | first_holder = Sir John Reith | last_holder = | present_holder = James Reith, 3rd Baron Reith | heir_apparent = Hon. Harry Reith | heir_presumptive = | remainder_to = | subsidiary_titles = | status = Extant | extinction_date = | family_seat = | former_seat = | motto = ''Quaecunque'' ("Whatsoever")<ref name="burke"/> | footnotes = }}
'''Baron Reith''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|r|iː|θ}}, of Stonehaven in the County of Kincardine, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34982 |date=29 October 1940 |page=6251}}</ref> It was created in 1940 for Sir John Reith, the first Director-General of the BBC. His only son, the second Baron, disclaimed the peerage for life in 1972. Since 2016, the title is held by the latter's son, the third Baron.
==Barons Reith (1940)== *John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1889–1971) *Christopher John Reith, 2nd Baron Reith (1928–2016) (disclaimed 1972) *James Harry John Reith, 3rd Baron Reith (b. 1971)
The heir apparent is the present holder's son, Hon. Harry Joseph Reith (b. 2006)
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Extant Barons of the United Kingdom}}
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