1979 . Patten's defeat was attributed to factors such as the Poll Tax.[6]. Patten married Lavender Thornton, a barrister, on 11 September 1971. And I dont see what pulls the party together again. On 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.[16]. Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. 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. 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. Patten was noted to be in tears throughout the day, notably after his speech at Tamar. She threatened to leave home forever on social media. Each email has a link to unsubscribe. Nostalgia for theformer first family was also invokedby an incident in March last year. The attempt, for example, to understand the relationship between a slave trade and the Atlantic economy of which we were a part seems to me to be fundamentally important. 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. "[12] This marked the end of British rule in Hong Kong. East and West. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. Bartis Edmond Hawley-Wall, Kyler Havard, Zealot23, Nich Smith, Matt Koltes, Chris Mulvihill . Now 28, she is a television producer at the BBC, making programmes for BBC Choice. 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. 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. [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. [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. +44(0)20 7306 0055, Admission free. Please refresh the page and/or try again. Thats just good history.. He talks about how you will see Christ sitting at the right hand of his father and a sort of celebrity troop of angels, Patten says, chuckling. Its funny you should say that. "It spits in the face of human rights and shows a delusional view of the Chinese Communist Party's trustworthiness on the international stage," Patten is quoted by the Daily Mail.. His comments came as 53 people were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of "subversion" in Hong Kong. In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark. And I just think Johnson is terribly wrong. 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. His subsequent career has been a tour of duty of threatened institutions and imperial relics, the more grown-up version of Portillo on a train. He laughs. 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 . In 2019, amidst the protests in Hong Kong, Patten spoke out in support of the protesters. His family was Irish Catholic. 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. W e had one of those thunderbolt feelings when we saw our main home in Barnes . A year later, he became Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 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. Views expressed by opinion writers and advertisers are not necessarily shared by HKFP. In 1979, he won his first parliamentary election to become an MP from Bath. Despite this, he enjoyed significant popularity in Hong Kong. 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. Patten receiving the union flag after it was lowered for the last time at Government House - the governors official residence - during a farewell ceremony in Hong Kong in 1997. Tory! 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. 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". 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. "She travelled to cities such as San Francisco for Rock Shrines," he says. 1 episode, Downtown Abbey (2014) as Diana Clark. In June 1983, he was made the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office. 07 Sep 1998. He took steps to get in touch with the people of the colony, and was known for his penchant for taking public strolls around Hong Kong as well as in the media limelight. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC is a politician from Britain. He was given an official Chinese name, Pang Ding-hong (Chinese: ), a name with an etymology based on the words "stability" and "calm; joyous; healthy". 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. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. 2 episodes, Where the Heart Is (2003) as Candida Oliver-Watts. He states baldly at one point a belief in an afterlife. [22] BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. His role however is minor as the film depicts him being replaced with one month to go before the handover. In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. His first job in the party was as a desk officer. There are still a few. Do you think that they always saw through that? The Black Watch [the last British military unit to leave] werent going to hold Hong Kong against the Peoples Liberation Army. He turns off a muted symphony when I arrive. In 2005, he became an appointed member of the British peerage. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). 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. 1 episode, Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016) as Katherine Parr. Rt hon chris patten ch former governor and commander-in-chief hong kong with his wife lavender and daughters left to right kate laura and alice at buckingham palace to receive his invest. He went over and addressed the students who organised the protests against Hong Kongs security laws a couple of times, at the invitation of their informal leader, Joshua Wong. Between February 2010 and June 2011, he served as the President of Medical Aid for Palestinians. John Majors bastards have long since taken over. But there was a bigger question, which I think framed the whole problem. That grim communist-speak.. "[24] Patten said that Chinese company Huawei "is an agent of an unpleasant Chinese state."[25]. The plan was to hand the lot over to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, but he felt he should get it in order. I mean, it was a colonial project. Dominic Patten / Deadline: David Zaslav Praises CNN Adding More GOP Voices; "Balance Strategy" Is "Important," Warner Bros Discovery Boss Says . In each of those roles, he has been pitted not against the left, but mostly against the Daily Mail and the ideologues and nut jobs in his own party. He was promoted to be a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science in September 1985, and was named Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in September 1986. In 1999, Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was in New York representing the European Commission. At which point, the young mans lovely girlfriend just burst into tears. As the last Governor, Chris Patten kept diaries giving unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were strengthened and how he sought to ensure . "I cried all day," she says of her very public departure. Before that, he was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. Sandra Lee is most worried for Andrew Cuomo's daughters in the wake of his sexual harassment scandal, sources told The Post.. Lee, who was with Cuomo for 14 years until their spit in September . Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations with other readers. (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). Search instead in Creative? For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. After the speech in 2017, he says, there was a Q&A. In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. We would welcome any information that adds to and enhances our information and understanding about a particular portrait, sitter or artist. 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. How I wonder, sitting on his plump sofa, does he envisage that? Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. 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. Photo: AFP/WTN Chris has an amazing sense of humour. RM G4CGKC - Former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten, with wife Lavender (2nd left) and daughters (l to r) Kate, Laura and Alice, after receiving his Order of the Companions of Honour from the Prince of Wales at today's (Friday) Buckingham Palace investiture. Simply to denounce it seems crazy. Concepts like that were mysterious to them. Photo by Fiona Hanson/PA Cut to June 30 1997, and his daughters' faces, like his wife's, were "crumpled with emotion and streaked with tears". "I'm the deputy beauty editor at Tatler, I'm very happy here, and that's it really. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. He was one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004. Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong[1] (30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound The last . Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. 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. Patten was then appointed the last governor of Hong Kong, to oversee the final years of British administration in the colony and prepare for its transfer to China in 1997. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than him. "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. He is also the one of only two living former governors of Hong Kong with Sir David Wilson. "I just find it intensely difficult. Friday July 01 2022, 5.00pm, The Sunday Times. See PA story ROYAL Patten. Commentaries Videos & Podcasts Author's Comments Sort by: Latest Popular Show: All On Point It was politically and morally difficult both for them and for us. On John Major's succession as Prime Minister in 1990, Patten became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. The latter initiative was heavily criticised in China, with one Chinese media outlet calling him a wrongdoer who would be condemned for a thousand generations. PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN STILLWELL/PA. 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. Tory! He made the case for negotiation rather than outright demands for independence. If they inspire you please support our work. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled. Friday & Saturday 10:30 - 21:00. As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory at the 1992 general election. He is the 28th and final Governor of Hong Kong from 19 July 1992 until the end of British administration over the territory on 30 June 1997. Last Governor of Hong Kong Chris patten on 20th Anniversary - Full interview Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes CH PC (born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who served as the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. Miserable times he writes. He is known for Tory! His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. Hong Kong news Independent, impartial, non-profit. She's very charming, and can talk even the most unlikely person into appearing on TV.". 1 episode, Midsomer Murders (2004) as Emily Hide. 1 episode, Jonathan Creek (2004) as Dawn/Gillian Bailey. Wednesday night, musician Chris Daughtry and his wife shared the cause of their daughter's sudden death on Nov. 12, 2021. It was going to become part of China. If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. Patten submitted his letter of resignation as BBC Trust Chairman to the Secretary of State on 6 May 2014; citing health reasons following his heart bypass surgery on 28 April. His latest sermon outlined three possibilities. Part of the reason that he despairs in watching our own democratic norms under threat proroguing parliament, undermining the independence of the judiciary and the neutrality of the civil service, threatening to ignore treaties in Northern Ireland is that he knows it makes it harder to criticise other regimes. Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. But the debate goes on.. In 2003, he was appointed the Chancellor of Oxford University. 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"We think the world of her, but as far as I'm concerned, there isn't really much to say. If you tick permission to publish your name will appear above your contribution on our website. 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". Following his governorship, Patten led the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, a major implementation step of the Northern Ireland peace process pursuant to the Good Friday Agreement from 1998 to 1999. 1 episode, New Tricks (2010) as Vicky Anderson. 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. Chris Patten is calling for the European Union to throw out its trade agreement with China. Chris Patten is Chancellor of Oxford University. Why was it that Chris Pattens daughters did not get intotrouble living in Government House for all those years, yetsuch troubles have cometo Ms Leung sinceshe moved in? a user questioned on popular HKGolden forum. Chris Patten. I look at people like Jeremy Hunt though I fear it is going to ruin his leadership chances for me to say hes perfectly good and decent.. Also Known As: Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, children: Alice Patten, Kate Patten, Laura Patten, See the events in life of Chris Patten in Chronological Order, (Chancellor of the University of Oxford (Since 2003)). Hardback. [7], Patten's tenure faced several different challenges, as many in Hong Kong were still reeling from the Tiananmen Square massacre a few years earlier. 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 . Do you think it was also their belief that the British government had deluded itself about its own purpose? 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. 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. There are occasions when we are unsure of the identity of a sitter or artist, their life dates, occupation or have not recorded their family relationships. The page posted two old photos of Pattens family when they wereat the Government House. This article about an English actor is a stub. by Jillian Edelsteinbromide fibre print, August 1990NPG x45377. Angela Wintle. [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. Its not woke to do that. Laura patten Stock Photos and Images. "She's very popular here, partly because she pulls her weight, partly because she's fun too. 26 Sep 2005. "Her last one was a series about boxing. (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. I listened to Sheila Hancock earlier talking about how one of the things about getting old is getting angrier. Patten was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office in June 1983. But the last two Ive done involved preaching on the days when the readings were about death and afterwards.. He was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 until 1997, Chairman for the Independent Commission on Policing after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 . Nevertheless, she matured into an ordinary teenager, doing some modelling and going out with an Australian surfer called Alex while in Hong Kong. During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. His family lived in Greenford, and Chris Patten went to primary school there and then won a scholarship to the Catholic St Benedict's. Patten was the Conservative Party candidate for Lambeth Central at the February 1974 general election, but lost to the Labour Party candidate, Marcus Lipton. They had the mandate of heaven and I didnt even have the mandate of the voters of Bath. Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was no stranger in picking fights with China. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). 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. After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. Those are three values for the scrapbook. He considered that the EU had become overly dependent on Russian energy supplies, and should become more engaged with the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia in order to diversify supplies. 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[20], As Chairman of the BBC Trust, Patten joined the Prince of Wales and other members of the royal family in the royal box for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert. Marisabina Russo, Russo, Marisabina 1950- Russo, Marisabina 1950- Personal Born May 1, 1950, in New York, NY; daughter of Michele Russo (a naval . Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last colonial governor, departed from the Government House in Hong Kong on the 1 st July 1997, and made the historic and iconic trip back to the HMY Britannia. At the United Nations, he met with China's foreign affairs minister, Tang . Beijing had expected that the use of functional constituencies with limited electorates would be used to elect this council, however Patten extended the definition of functional constituencies and thus virtually every Hong Konger was able to vote for the so-called indirectly elected members (see Politics of Hong Kong) of the Legislative Council. In 2010, The Tablet named him as one of Britain's most influential Catholics. Consider its policies in Xinjiang. 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"). Hes exactly what authoritarians dont like: feisty, tough, pastoral, funny. Zen reminds him, he says, of another brave, up-yours kind of person, Jonathan Mirsky, the former Observer correspondent who covered the Tiananmen Square massacre. Open Daily: 10:30 - 18:00 SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART Family (1) Spouse Lavender Thornton (1971 - present) (3 children) Trivia (4) Former Governor of Hong Kong. There is a 1930s village atmosphere, which bankers and lawyers now pay 5m to inhabit. 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. What theyre doing in Hong Kong is wicked. What the Chinese have done in Xinjiang is wicked. PHOTOGRAPH Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images 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. I think, first of all, people talk about American exceptionalism, try Chinese exceptionalism. Please could you let us know your source of information. Jun 2020 - Present2 years 9 months. For people of my age, it was a bit like being born just after the Congress of Vienna [of 1814], to then live through a period of stability and growing prosperity, longevity, better health, in which there were a number of givens: Europe or welfare democracy or that thing that Peter Hennessy writes about, leaders who, in the absence of a written constitution, could be trusted to do the right thing.. This account already exists. Kate, who missed her father's signing-in as Governor when she chose instead to go trekking with friends around South America, spent the least time in Hong Kong because she was studying for a degree in Spanish and Latin American studies at Newcastle University. Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last governor of Hong Kong. Reading it, you cant help but reflect on an essential loss of rigour in Britains dealings with the world; contrast the likes of Douglas Hurd and Malcolm Rifkind as foreign secretaries with the incumbent, Liz Truss. 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.. 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