Lord Chris Patten, who has no power to remove the Rhodes statue at Oxford University's Oriel College, said a trust set up after the mining magnate's death pays for the education of more than a. Receiving a Coolidge travelling scholarship, he went to US, where he was part of the campaign of then-Republican New York Mayor John Lindsay. : Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH PC 1944 512 - . In 2005, he became an appointed member of the British peerage. (Photo by David Montgomery/Getty Images) PURCHASE A LICENSE Get personalized pricing by telling us when, where, and how you want to use this asset. We're completely supportive of her and backing her 110 per cent. Unlike most previous Hong Kong governors, he was not a career diplomat from the UK Foreign Office although he was not the first former MP to become a governor of Hong Kong. With her long hair and perfect features, the 22-year-old is possibly the prettiest of the Patten girls and made her TV debut this year as Imogen Dartie in The Forsyte Saga, and now spends her time flitting between rehearsals at the Royal National Theatre and her new boyfriend, Cambridge graduate Dan Rookwood, an internet sports journalist and sometime travel writer at The Guardian. On 9 September 1999, the Commission produced its report, entitled A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland and popularly known as the Patten Report, which contained 175 symbolic and practical recommendations. Raised in west London, Patten studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. Miserable times he writes. [3] Patten's father, Frank, a jazz-drummer turned popular-music publisher and his mother Joan sent him to a Catholic primary school, Our Lady of the Visitation, in Greenford, and later to the independent St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London, where he won an exhibition to read Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford. Patten is portrayed the video game Hong Kong 97 as ordering Chin, an unspecified relative of Bruce Lee, to massacre the entire population of mainland China. His wifes father competed in the 1936 Olympics, part of that Chariots of Fire generation, and was killed in 1944. The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten is published by Allen Lane . Can you tell us more about this person? In September 2005 he was elected a Distinguished Honorary Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto (the only person so elected except for the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, the Duke of Edinburgh) as well as receiving an honorary D.S.Litt. Loree Seitz / The Wrap: David Zaslav Signals Confidence in CNN Chief Chris Licht: . It is certainly important to use Rhodes money for more black African students. They bought the. "I thought there was a prospect that (China) would keep its word, and I'm sorry that it hasn't," he said in London. When they learn that their coach has died, they all return to New England with their families for the funeral. Lavender doesnt entirely approve; I think she fears it makes me a tad sanctimonious. In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. Hardback. SHANGHAI -- Seventeen years after sailing on Britain's Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong, the tango dancer is on the move again. At which point, the young mans lovely girlfriend just burst into tears. Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last Governor of Hong Kong. He might just have got through the modest . Concepts like that were mysterious to them. Try AbeBooks. Delivery charges may apply. I kept on saying the only bunkers in Hong Kong were on golf courses., Events of the last decade, not just in China, have shown how the liberal idea that market freedom goes hand in hand with political freedom has been disproved. In 1989, he was promoted to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for the Environment and became responsible for the unpopular Community Charge (or so-called "Poll Tax"). [18], On 11 January 2005 Patten was created a life peer as Baron Patten of Barnes, of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It involved turning 850,000 words into 250,000. In June 1983, he was made the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office. If hes honest he cant see any other future for the territory than that it will have its freedoms and its attributes as an open society stripped away comprehensively. Chris Patten's Hong Kong Diaries take us behind the scenes of 1997 handover Kevin Rudd, the former Australian prime minister and new ambassador to the United States, made himself far more. After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. Environment secretary Chris Patten (r) was charged with introducing the poll tax Instead of the tax shining a spotlight on spendthrift local councils, she said, the government was getting the. Patten said afterwards the Royal Pageant had not been the BBC's "finest hour" and admitted that "The tone was wrong."[21]. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) has become a single womanizer. It's that kind of awful TV.". Its not woke to do that. Support HKFP | Code of Ethics | Error/typo? The tone sometimes threatens to override his reservations about Britains own shaming colonial history that led to the acquisition of the rocks in the first place. A caption was changed to correct a date: Chris Patten received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1998; not 1989. It was going to become part of China. [8], In contrast to his predecessors, Patten decided not to wear the official Court uniform on formal occasions. +44(0)20 7306 0055, Admission free. A practising Roman Catholic, he organized Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. His second thought was metaphor. One time I. But after the official handing over ceremony was complete, and they had been poured stiff gins by Prince Charles aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia, the Patten family faced a rather ignominious return to a semi-detached Victorian house in Barnes. How do you know this? It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. Many good people were driven out of the Conservative party by Brexit. As the last Governor of Hong Kong, he supervised the final years of British governance in the colony and readied it for the transition to Chinese control in 1997. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chris_Patten_-2008-10-31-.jpg, https://flickr.com/photos/ukinfrance/11115110006, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3MtANpVq6s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkYBUBJgws. I've been in this job for a couple of years. The controversial US oil plan explained, Green leader storms out of council meeting after being misgendered. As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. We normally spend our time down the pub and avoid society events like the plague.". Despite this, he enjoyed significant popularity in Hong Kong. Chris Patten I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than him. (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). Patten bemoaned the fact that much of the corporation's high-brow programming had been moved to BBC Four, the digital channel, and given low budgets that meant shows were "sometimes made with glue and string". That grim communist-speak.. Press release from the City of Menifee: MENIFEE - Menifee's street projects and construction updates are getting an upgrade! It is hard to beat Dominic Grieves description of him as a moral vacuum., A few minutes later he phones me back. To me, they're not a story, they're just my girls.". If you have information to share please complete the form below. In 1999, he was appointed as one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations where he was responsible for the Union's development and co-operation programmes, as well as liaison with Javier Solana, the High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. During his tenure, his government significantly expanded the territory's social welfare programmes and introduced democratic reforms to the electoral system.[2]. If you tick permission to publish your name will appear above your contribution on our website. 2 episodes, Where the Heart Is (2003) as Candida Oliver-Watts. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. Tory! Netizens were amazed by the apparent response from the English actress, however, as it is a fan page it isunlikely that it is managedby Patten herself. Patten was the Conservative Party candidate for Lambeth Central at the February 1974 general election, but lost to the Labour Party candidate, Marcus Lipton. A media frenzy greeted their exuberant, mini-skirted arrival in 1992, and their gulping tears when they left five years later came to symbolise the last days of the British Empire in the territory. 07 Sep 1998. 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While he basically orchestrated the Conservative victory in the general election of 1992, he lost his own MP seat at Bath. By ticking permission to publish you are indicating your agreement for your contribution to be shown on this collection item page. The first was a literalist one based on a reading by Ronald Knox, who was chaplain to Catholic students at Oxford. I'm absolutely proud of them, they're all doing terrifically well. What I should say, he said, is that we dont have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party which is populist, but fatally without being popular.. Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). Verden, Alexander Griffiths, SnipsGTI, Brian Sousa, bilbens baggo, Stuart, IbKelek, Galygious, Andrew Patton, Nicole Patten, Clementine . He is also an actor and was recently embroiled in controversy when he opted to play Prince William in an American film about the young Royals. For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Posted By: VOHK April 12, 2016 By Chan King-cheung - In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark. Please refresh the page and/or try again. [N]o one was above the laws; police were not being used to suppress freedoms; top govt officials were qualified and experienced; less crowded streets and MTR; less fights and above all, the mayors daughters were beautiful and well-educated!!!. Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit opportunities. In May 2016, Patten said that the BBC has "lost some of its ambition" in its coverage of science, philosophy and history, and should "stretch" audiences more. He asked Patten the question that all young people from Hong Kong he meets now ask him: Do you think when we finish our degree we should go back to Hong Kong?. Patten's guest was entranced by a picture of his children on his desk and asked: "How come ugly father produce such beautiful daughters?" He served a full five-year term before his ennoblement. And I dont see what pulls the party together again. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003.. Raised in west London, Patten studied history at . He was born into an Irish Catholic family on his paternal side. Tory! Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). He grew up in West London and attended a Catholic primary school, Our Lady of the Visitation, in Greenford, and later the independent St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London. His book ends with a postscript that is a rallying cry for the democracy movement in his former home (and his current one) - their cause is our cause. He has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2005. Showing Editorial results for chris patten. In October 2009, Patten was Chief Guest at The Doon School, a boarding school in Dehradun, India, which is a member of the United Kingdom's Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Rather than use her name to her advantage, Laura has quietly worked her way up in the magazine world, beginning with three weeks work experience on Vogue, followed by a job at Harpers and Queen, then Vanity Fair, culminating in her present position at Tatler where she is known as hard-working and unpretentious. In 1992, Chris Patten, former chairman of the Conservative Party, was appointed Hong Kong's last governor, and was the man to oversee the handover ceremony of this former British colony. Grand promises made about one country, two systems mixed with anecdotes about the Pattens three daughters and two dogs. Ann Lewis. RM 2D332TK - Chris Patten, the EU Commissioner and last Governor of Hong Kong, after the installation ceremony as Chancellor at Oxford University in Oxford, with from left daughters Laura, Alice, wife Lavender and daughter Kate. 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The most depressing thing is Ive been watching interviews with ministers this evening, he said, and the titles alone are so depressing. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. PHOTOGRAPH Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Try AbeBooks. She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. Patten tried, he says, to give an answer that recognised that he was not being required to be as brave as they might be, in making that choice. The most difficult question was a kid who said, Weve listened to you, Mr Patten. LegCo members returned in 1995 were originally to serve beyond the Handover, thereby providing institutional continuity across the transition of Hong Kong to the PRC. degree from the University of Bath. He is also the one of only two living former governors of Hong Kong with Sir David Wilson. What theyre doing in Hong Kong is wicked. "She travelled to cities such as San Francisco for Rock Shrines," he says. And its probably just because so many of the things that I think my generation took for granted are now being trashed., Patten was not a silver-spoon Tory. Leung Chai-yan, the other daughter of the Chief Executive, claimed she was domestically abused by hermother and had beenlocked up. Try AbeBooks. The morning after the Westminster confidence vote, he sends me an email mentioning that he is at an airport on his way to give a memorial lecture to one of his political heroes, John Hume, prime mover in the Belfast agreement now under threat. Chris Patten. In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. Before that she was doing a series called Rock Shrines, about dead pop stars and their fans. Chris Patten Writing for PS since 2000 151 Commentaries Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong and a former EU commissioner for external affairs, is Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the author of The Hong Kong Diaries (Allen Lane, 2022). In 2003, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He was also the last governor of the colony, as it was transferred to Chinese control on June 30, 1997. Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong[1] Had he not lost his own seat in Bath in that election, partly because he was associated with the poll tax, he would have become, at 48, chancellor of the exchequer. 10 Jun 2008. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. by Jillian Edelsteinbromide fibre print, August 1990NPG x45377. The National Portrait Gallery will NOT use your information to contact you or store for any other purpose than to investigate or display your contribution. Chris Patten, with wife Lavender and daughters Alice and Laura, is greeted by the Chief Secretary, Sir David Ford, on arrival in Hong Kong on 9 July 1992 Much of the time during the summer is. [19], On the advice of the ConservativeLiberal Democrat coalition government led by Prime Minister David Cameron, Patten was appointed by the Queen-in-Council as Chairman of the BBC Trust, and he took office on 1 May 2011, in the place of Sir Michael Lyons whose contract was not renewed. On May 1, 2011, following the advice from the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government led by Prime Minister David Cameron, the Queen-in-Council made him the Chairman of BBC Trust. On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. Hardback. The book was a lockdown project. After two weeks without a glimpse, Governor Chris Patten's teenage daughter, Laura, had been spotted in the beauty salon of the colony's 108-year-old Ladies' Recreation Club along with her. Patten lives in a large villa in Barnes in south-west London, next to the wooded common. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. When MP for Bath (1979-92) he served as Minister for Overseas Development, Secretary of State for the Environment and Chairman of the Conservative Party. Its too depressing to think about, Patten says. Photo: AFP/WTN Chris has an amazing sense of humour. Developer Chris Patten has submitted new plans to build a four-story apartment complex at the corner of Glen and Bay streets, directly across from City Park. Friday July 01 2022, 5.00pm, The Sunday Times. This article about an English actor is a stub. Hobbies and other interests: Tennis, reading, browsing in bookshops. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (Chinese: ; born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post: Trump may be . If Patten places some of his faith in what comes next, however, he hasnt quite given up hope of redemption in the here and now. [14], From 1998 to 1999, he chaired the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, better known as the Patten Commission, which had been established in 1998 as part of the Belfast Agreement. 1 episode, Midsomer Murders (2004) as Emily Hide. (1973-), Television producer; daughter of Chris Patten, Paul McCartney Photographs 196364: Eyes of the Storm, Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, Mary Lavender St Leger Patten (ne Thornton), / Person - Katharine Joan ('Kate') Patten. Chris Patten. Patten grew up in an Irish Catholic family in west London, the son of an unsuccessful music publisher whose forebears had come to England from County Roscommon, Ireland. 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