[29], In 2014 Pope Francis appointed Patten to head a body to advise the Vatican on media strategy and on how to handle the press, which he remained on until 2016. The daughters of Chris Patten, Laura, Kate and Alice, say a tearful goodbye to Hong Kong, from on board the Royal yacht Britannia. Each email has a link to unsubscribe. Chris Patten is Chancellor of Oxford University. According to information from WikiLeaks, Patten was in Moscow in April 2004 and had concluded EURussia ministerial consultations in Brussels. His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. Spotted an error, information that is missing (a sitters life dates, occupation or family relationships, or a date of portrait for example) or do you know anything that we don't know? 10 Jun 2008. Chris Patten. Your contributions must be polite and with no intention of causing trouble. On the table is the book hes just put down, Julia Boyds A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism, and a copy of his own new book, The Hong Kong Diaries, which is the occasion for our meeting. Well, there are two elements to it. It is hard to beat Dominic Grieves description of him as a moral vacuum., A few minutes later he phones me back. The plans call for 21 apartment units . In politics, one has to make a distinction between people who are doing things that are wrong and people who are trying to do things that are right. A caption was changed to correct a date: Chris Patten received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1998; not 1989. Cut to June 30 1997, and his daughters' faces, like his wife's, were "crumpled with emotion and streaked with tears". 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. Chris Patten, the 28th and last governor of Hong Kong was swallowing hard as he emerged from Government House for the last time yesterday afternoon. The Hong Kong Diaries is published on 21 June by Allen Lane (30). . Friends describe Rookwood, or "Rookers" as he is known, as "an avid Liverpool supporter, and a bit of a lad", but say that the couple - who have been together for eight months - are in love. Lenny rents the lake house for the 4th . 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). Indian film, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23. and at Queens' College, Cambridge. She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). The two posts combined had received more than 8,000 likes and 700 shares by Monday morning. That grim communist-speak.. She portrayed Ygraine Pendragon, the deceased Queen of Camelot, the mother of Arthur, and the wife of the King Uther Pendragon in the BBC series Merlin . Join our newsletter and follow us on our social media channels to find out more about exhibitions, events and the people and portraits in our Collection. Grand promises made about one country, two systems mixed with anecdotes about the Pattens three daughters and two dogs. "Her last one was a series about boxing. It's just that after those heady years in the spotlight, her sisters would seem to crave the exact opposite. Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last governor, handed the former colony back to China on 1 July 1997 to be ruled with a degree of autonomy under a system called "o. After serving the organisation for three years, he resigned on May 6, 2014. And cross-checking against my wifes diary, to make sure I had the days right.. In 2006, she appeared in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti as Sue McKinley, a young British woman who comes to India to make a documentary film about the British rule in the Indian subcontinent. Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong[1] Visiting him is like stepping into a lost Conservative hinterland. 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. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( Chinese: ; [1] 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. We're completely supportive of her and backing her 110 per cent. (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). His wifes father competed in the 1936 Olympics, part of that Chariots of Fire generation, and was killed in 1944. "She travelled to cities such as San Francisco for Rock Shrines," he says. The Tory grandee, publishing his diaries of his time as governor of Hong Kong, on the greedy west giving China an easy ride and his partys long nervous breakdown, A few minutes after the result of Mondays confidence vote in the prime minister was announced, I spoke to Chris Patten on the phone. JACK HILL. Laura, meanwhile, who 10 years ago catapulted the Patten girls to celebrity status by appearing at the age of 17 in a micro-skirt and a tight T-shirt, launching a bout of Laura-mania in the Hong Kong press, is now the deputy health and beauty editor of Tatler. The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten is published by Allen Lane . 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. 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.. He held this position within the Prodi Commission from 23 January 2000 until 22 November 2004. SHANGHAI -- Seventeen years after sailing on Britain's Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong, the tango dancer is on the move again. In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. Enter your password to log in. Photo: AFP/WTN Chris has an amazing sense of humour. By clicking Sign up you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice. Patten turned down offers of a new post and instead, in July 1992, he became the 28th and the last governor of Hong Kong until its transfer of sovereignty to China on 30 June 1997. He has been married to Lavender Thornton since 1971. He held the parliamentary seat until 1992. Before relinquishing the colonial administration to China in 1997, he was fighting daily battles, mostly verbal, with . 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. Former Hong Kong Gov. Blonde and elfin, Alice - who was nicknamed "Little Princess" by her sisters - found it perhaps hardest of all to adjust to returning to Britain. His job was to accumulate information on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley, Jr. In 2019, amidst the protests in Hong Kong, Patten spoke out in support of the protesters. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) has become a single womanizer. In the last three months, he says, partly as a result of Britains generous visa scheme, there have been 100,000-plus people from Hong Kong, teachers, medics, lawyers, leaving to come here and lots of other places as well. [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!!!. Patten's actions were strongly criticised by the pro-Beijing political parties of Hong Kong. Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. 07 Sep 1998. Between February 2010 and June 2011, he served as the President of Medical Aid for Palestinians. We'll need your email address so that we can follow up on the information provided and contact you to let you know when your contribution has been published. Hardback. "She's very popular here, partly because she pulls her weight, partly because she's fun too. Chris Patten, Hong Kong's final British governor before the 1997 handover, says the UK should tell China its proposal for a Hong Kong national security law is "outrageous". 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. For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. He was then an EU commissioner, partly responsible for the unions foreign policy. It was going to become part of China. But what if youre wrong? Hong Kong netizens have been posting old photos of Chris Patten's three daughters Laura, Kate and Alice when they were in Hong Kong, since the incident involving Leung Chun-yan, the Chief. Donations welcome 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. All real Hong Kongers miss the Patten family very much. 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?. Family (1) Spouse Lavender Thornton (1971 - present) (3 children) Trivia (4) Former Governor of Hong Kong. Yana Gupta. Patten was born in 1944 on the day the German army was driven out of Crimea. John Majors bastards have long since taken over. 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. Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was no stranger in picking fights with China. Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. In 2010, The Tablet named him as one of Britain's most influential Catholics. 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. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. 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"In addition to supplying experts for incoming administrations, think tanks provide departing officials with institutional settings [where they] remain engaged in pressing foreign policy debates, and constitute an informal shadow foreign affairs establishment.This "revolving door" is unique to the United States, and a source of its strength. After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. 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Patten was also denounced by some Chinese media and politicians as the "whore of the East" and a "serpent", and was most famously called a "sinner who would be condemned for a thousand generations" (Chinese: ) by Lu Ping, the head of China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office. Chris Patten: We have a populist government that is fatally not popular, few minutes after the result of Mondays confidence vote in the prime minister was announced, I spoke to. 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. In 1990, John Major made Patten Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party, with responsibility for organising the Conservative Party's re-election campaign for the upcoming general election. Hobbies and other interests: Tennis, reading, browsing in bookshops. [citation needed], After graduating with a second-class honours degree in 1965 and winning a Coolidge travelling scholarship to the US,[4] Patten worked for the campaign of then-Republican New York Mayor John Lindsay, where he reported on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley Jr.[5] He worked for the Conservative Party from 1966, first as desk officer and then director (from 1974 to 1979) of the Conservative Research Department. Nostalgia for theformer first family was also invokedby an incident in March last year. Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit opportunities. If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. His latest sermon outlined three possibilities. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. We would welcome any information that adds to and enhances our information and understanding about a particular portrait, sitter or artist. The 42-year-old musician's family confirmed to People magazine that Hannah Price, who was found dead in her home two . 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.. In 1990, he was appointed the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party. [32] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor honoris causa by South East European University. I listened to Sheila Hancock earlier talking about how one of the things about getting old is getting angrier. The gracious, book-lined sitting room gives out on to a generous garden. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than him. Angela Wintle. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations with other readers. 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But if it was difficult to convince them of that hope then, certainly after 2019 when Mr Lees police had been beating them over the head, tasering and teargassing them, it wasnt going to be any easier., A year ago, Patten was taking Bobby for a walk in Richmond Park when he bumped into two Chinese couples in their mid-20s. Cautioning that "I'm not saying that genes are determinant," Patten then reviewed the Putin family history grandfather part of Lenin's special protection team; father a communist party apparatchik, and Putin himself decided at a young age to pursue a career in the KGB. Tony Blair suggested that it made the road to democracy [in China] unstoppable. Connor Patten Basketball. You can see it in the language used by [former Hong Kong chief executive] Carrie Lam and now this terrible policeman who is her successor, John Lee. Nevertheless, she matured into an ordinary teenager, doing some modelling and going out with an Australian surfer called Alex while in Hong Kong. What the Russians are doing in Ukraine is wicked. Now 28, she is a television producer at the BBC, making programmes for BBC Choice. After his loss in 1992, Patten declined the offer of a new seat and assumed the position of the 28th Governor of Hong Kong. Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. He also introduced, and steered through Parliament, the major legislation that became the Environmental Protection Act 1990. n Hong Kong, they were known as the Three Graces. Christopher Patten. "We think the world of her, but as far as I'm concerned, there isn't really much to say. [27], Patten is a Catholic and oversaw Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. If they inspire you please support our work. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). Chris Patten. In 2016, in the wake of a student movement to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes from a college in Oxford, as had happened in South Africa, Patten said that Oxford students who did not like Cecil Rhodes should "think about being educated elsewhere". This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Can you tell us more about this person? 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.She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). One of them, a postgraduate medical student at Oxford, stopped him to explain that they had met at that meeting and Patten had been photographed with him carrying the yellow umbrella symbol of protest. Which he thought was something which was valuable to South Africa. Patten and his time in Hong Kong was the subject of the 5-part documentary series The Last Governor, which was filmed throughout his time in Hong Kong, including his arrival, key moments of his government such as the 1995 elections and his final day in office, ending as he departs Government House for the last time. Many international lawyers argue that the incarceration of over one million Muslim Uighurs, forced sterilisation and abortion, and slave labour meet the UN definition of genocide. God Save The Queen. 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". The first was a literalist one based on a reading by Ronald Knox, who was chaplain to Catholic students at Oxford. [17], According to information from the US Embassy in Brussels (published by WikiLeaks in November 2010): Patten said in April 2004 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has done a good job for Russia mainly due to high world energy prices, but he had serious doubts about the man's character. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. What theyre doing in Hong Kong is wicked. 1,490 Chris Patten Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 1,490 chris patten stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. He was European Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004 and Chairman of the BBC Trust from 2011 to 2014. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. Please note that we cannot provide valuations. Two books, one by the ex-governor and another by professor Ho-fung Hung, offer insights into China's savage repression . As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. He kept a daily journal of his historic years in Hong Kong, partly on tape recordings. Dominic Patten / Deadline: David Zaslav Praises CNN Adding More GOP Voices; "Balance Strategy" Is "Important," Warner Bros Discovery Boss Says . The couple held their wedding reception at the rather unlavish Wetlands Centre close to the family home in Barnes, and on a rare social outing to a fundraising event at the Royal Academy last year Laura said: 'I am a very private person, and so is Elton. The former Conservative party chairman and current rebellious Tory peer was dismayed to see the Johnson cult still hanging on. 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. Within the last five years of British rule, acclaimed journalist Jonathan Dimbleby was given unique access to the governor which enabled him to document the . She still lives at home with her parents and is particularly close to her father, who is now the external relations commissioner for the European Union and is described by Alice as "the best listener I know". 04 Dec 1998. Katharine Joan ('Kate') Patten (1973-), Television producer; daughter of Chris Patten Sitter in 1 portrait Tell us More Like List Thumbnail Sort by Chris Patten and his family by Jillian Edelstein bromide fibre print, August 1990 NPG x45377 Find out more > Use this image Related People Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes (father) (30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound The last . Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( Chinese: ; [1] born 12 May 1944) is a British politician. In October, he severely criticised the Hong Kong government for banning face masks. [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. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979, and served until he was unseated in 1992. And nobody should ever see the words Nadine Dorries and culture secretary in the same sentence.. 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. 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