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Sir Peter Lytton Bazalgette (; born 22 May 1953) is Chair of Arts Council England. He is a British television producer who helped to create the independent TV production sector in the United Kingdom, and went on to be the leading creative figure in the global TV company Endemol. ''The Independent'' argued that he may be "the most influential man in British television" as a result of his impact on the development of reality television and lifestyle TV programmes. The ''Daily Mail'' once named him as one of the "Ten Worst Britons" for Endemol's Channel 4 show ''Big Brother'' and the ''London Evening Standard'' television critic Victor Lewis-Smith said that Bazalgette had "done more to debase television over the past decade than anyone else." He was elected President of the Royal Television Society and Deputy Chairman of the National Film School. He was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16364855 )〕 He has been a benefactor to the arts and Chairman of English National Opera. In September 2012 it was announced that he would succeed Dame Elizabeth Forgan as Chair of the Arts Council England. ==Personal life== Peter Bazalgette is the great-great-grandson of Victorian civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. A third cousin is Edward Bazalgette who directed and produced the 2003 documentary ''The Sewer King'' which charted Sir Joseph Bazalgette's design and engineering of the London sewers. Peter Bazalgette presented a later television show for Five, called ''The Great Stink'', and chaired the Crossness Engines Trust raising £4.5 million to restore the magnificent Victorian pumping station built by his ancestor. An old joke is that where Joseph Bazalgette was responsible for removing ordure from London's homes, his grandson has reversed the process. For the first 12 years of his life Peter Bazalgette's parents did not have a television. He attended Dulwich College, and gained a third class degree in Law from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University while also becoming the president of the Cambridge Union Society. He is married to intellectual property rights lawyer Hilary Newiss, with whom he has two children. The family lives in Notting Hill. 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「Peter Bazalgette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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