Hardback. It is hard to beat Dominic Grieves description of him as a moral vacuum., A few minutes later he phones me back. He has been married to Lavender Thornton since 1971. But the last two Ive done involved preaching on the days when the readings were about death and afterwards.. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. I have trained 5 . I suggest the fractures go back to the 1990s. [15] This report led to the disbanding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and establishment of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. [11] The legislative council which was elected under Patten's governorship was dissolved upon the handover of Hong Kong to the PRC and replaced by a Provisional Legislative Council which did not have any democratic functions until elections were held under the previous rules in 1998. Chris Patten. "I just find it intensely difficult. Despite this, he enjoyed significant popularity in Hong Kong. Kris is HKFP's Editorial Director. A Lancashire native, Patten grew up in London and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. Try AbeBooks. Chris Patten. It involved turning 850,000 words into 250,000. Yana Gupta. Thats just good history.. On 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.[16]. The 42-year-old musician's family confirmed to People magazine that Hannah Price, who was found dead in her home two . 04 Dec 1998. His second thought was metaphor. Patten's most controversial actions in Hong Kong are related to the 1994 electoral reform. "We are very, very happy together," she says. "I'm the deputy beauty editor at Tatler, I'm very happy here, and that's it really. Dominic Patten / Deadline: David Zaslav Praises CNN Adding More GOP Voices; "Balance Strategy" Is "Important," Warner Bros Discovery Boss Says . Enter your password to log in. God Save The Queen. In 2003, he was appointed the Chancellor of Oxford University. Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. [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. 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired. (30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound The last . 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. 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 . Before relinquishing the colonial administration to China in 1997, he was fighting daily battles, mostly verbal, with . Chris Patten. Western governments, Patten believes, have been wrong because of greed to give Xi Jinpings regime an easier ride than Vladimir Putins. Between 1998 and 1999, Chris Patten served as the Chairperson of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland. Last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23, "Laura's straw hat puts Patten in the shade", "Old Patten family photos making some Hongkongers nostalgic", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Patten&oldid=1139788810, The Forsyte Saga (2002) as Imogen. 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. Paperback. He was born into an Irish Catholic family on his paternal side. Something went wrong. 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". I train athletes looking for upgrades to their shooting, ball handling, court awareness, and post play skills. 1 episode, Midsomer Murders (2004) as Emily Hide. Alice was only 12 when she arrived in Hong Kong, and while her sisters returned to Britain to school and university, she grew up amid the marble-corridored glory of Government House where men in white gloves picked her socks up off the floor and served her meals. SHANGHAI -- Seventeen years after sailing on Britain's Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong, the tango dancer is on the move again. Two books, one by the ex-governor and another by professor Ho-fung Hung, offer insights into China's savage repression . Lavender doesnt entirely approve; I think she fears it makes me a tad sanctimonious. She's very charming, and can talk even the most unlikely person into appearing on TV.". After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. 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. From 2014 to 2016, he worked under Pope Francis as the head of the body that advises the Vatican on media strategy. Many good people were driven out of the Conservative party by Brexit. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. [17], Patten was the biggest proponent in the commission for Turkey's accession to the European Union. 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. 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. Search instead in Creative? Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. He was European Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004 and Chairman of the BBC Trust from 2011 to 2014. This account already exists. In addition to the name, Pattern appears to be based heavily on Patten, matching his appearance, political affiliation (Conservative) and family (a wife and two daughters with him in Hong Kong). and at Queens' College, Cambridge. Chris Patten at his home in Barnes. Commentaries Videos & Podcasts Author's Comments Sort by: Latest Popular Show: All On Point After his loss in 1992, Patten declined the offer of a new seat and assumed the position of the 28th Governor of Hong Kong. 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. [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. 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. Patten also played the role of Vicky Anderson, in an episode of New Tricks, the daughter of an English-born Hong Kong businessman, Douglas Anderson, who had been involved in questionable building deals in Hong Kong, shortly before the end of British rule in 1997.[5]. His father was a jazz drummer who later became a popular music publisher. [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. 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. I mean, it was a colonial project. degree from the University of Ulster. Open Daily: 10:30 - 18:00 He was also the last governor of the colony, as it was transferred to Chinese control on June 30, 1997. 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. Tory! It's just that after those heady years in the spotlight, her sisters would seem to crave the exact opposite. For a decade between 1999 and 2009, he was the Chancellor of Newcastle University. 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. 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". Try AbeBooks. And I just think Johnson is terribly wrong. Do you have specialist knowledge or a particular interest about any aspect of the portrait or sitter or artist that you can share with us? When Chinese leaders said Hong Kong could remain itself for 50 years after 1997, he says, it rather begged the question of whether they knew what it was in the first place. 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. Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. "I don't think they ever wanted to be in the limelight, these decisions are not necessarily there to be made - it's a question of how one stays out of the limelight, rather than wanting to be in it," Mrs Patten said from the family holiday home in France. Patten oversaw many crises in the area of European foreign policy, most notably the failure of the European Union to come up with a common unified policy before the Iraq War in 2003. Reading his 2017 memoir, First Confession, I was struck by how much his faith meant to him. Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. He laughs. Perhaps because she was forced to play out her rebellious teenage years in the public view - a leader in The Independent in 1992 criticised her for failing to dress appropriately and sitting "in what could only be described as a slouch - legs askew and one arm dangled over the side of her chair," during a formal ceremony - Laura has cultivated a quiet domestic life out of the limelight and, after her sudden promotion to a pop-star level of fame in Hong Kong, now shuns publicity. 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. Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong[1] 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. 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. 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. Search over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated from the 16th Century to the present day. That grim communist-speak.. I'm absolutely proud of them, they're all doing terrifically well. The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten is published by Allen Lane . In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. 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. "He seems a completely reasonable man when discussing the Middle East or energy policy, but when the conversation shifts to Chechnya or Islamic extremism, Putin's eyes turn to those of a killer.". The EU and Moldova. * Academics were turning out in full regalia for a procession and ceremony at . 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. 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. In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark. Its funny you should say that. In 2005, he became an appointed member of the British peerage. 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Loree Seitz / The Wrap: David Zaslav Signals Confidence in CNN Chief Chris Licht: . 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. Hardback. 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. Each email has a link to unsubscribe. He might just have got through the modest . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. He also introduced, and steered through Parliament, the major legislation that became the Environmental Protection Act 1990. This wasnt a colony like any other. We should say so. They have three children. Chris Patten is calling for the European Union to throw out its trade agreement with China. Though he robustly defended the policy at the time, in his 2006 book Not Quite the Diplomat (published in the United States as Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain and Europe in the New Century) he claims to have thought it was a mistake on Margaret Thatcher's part. If you have information to share please complete the form below. 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 . Friday July 01 2022, 5.00pm, The Sunday Times. "[12] This marked the end of British rule in Hong Kong. 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. 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. 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). Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last governor of Hong Kong. His latest sermon outlined three possibilities. In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. In 1979, he won his first parliamentary election to become an MP from Bath. [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. During his tenure, his government significantly expanded the territory's social welfare programmes and introduced democratic reforms to the electoral system.[2]. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than him. [2][3], Her first major role after graduation was Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton in the West End in 2002.[4]. Try AbeBooks. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). Like Laura, she has also spent the past five years quietly pursuing her career. I occasionally get asked to preach in college chapels. If Patten had been re-elected in 1992, sections of the media thought he would have been rewarded by appointment as Foreign Secretary, although in his autobiography John Major said that he would have made Patten Chancellor of the Exchequer. "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. Patten was the Conservative Party candidate for Lambeth Central at the February 1974 general election, but lost to the Labour Party candidate, Marcus Lipton. 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. Try AbeBooks. Between 1974 and 1979, he served as the director of the Conservative Research Department. During the tenure of John Major as the PM, Patten served as the Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and played an instrumental role in his partys victory in the 1992 general election. Patten's defeat was attributed to factors such as the Poll Tax.[6]. His job was to accumulate information on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley, Jr. Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. 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. He was the architect of Major's 1992 election victory, built on a belief that, post-Thatcher, the party must be "tolerant,. In 1999, Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was in New York representing the European Commission. In 2008, she played Thea in Hedda, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, at London's Gate Theatre and, in 2009, she guest-starred as Arthur's mother Ygraine in the BBC fantasy drama series Merlin. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. Hong Kong netizens have been posting oldphotos of Chris Pattensthree daughters Laura, Kate and Alice when they were in Hong Kong, since the incident involving Leung Chun-yan, the Chief Executives youngest daughter, was revealedby local media. As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. Does he ever get mad, watching his lifes work, at home and abroad, unravel? Chris Patten East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia Hardcover - September 14, 1998 by Christopher Patten (Author) 21 ratings Hardcover $22.11 45 Used from $1.66 5 New from $18.85 2 Collectible from $17.00 Paperback $16.99 12 Used from $2.93 At midnight Hong Kong Time 1 July 1997 (16:00 GMT, 30 June 1997), he sent the telegram: "I have relinquished the administration of this government. 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. Leung Chai-yan, the other daughter of the Chief Executive, claimed she was domestically abused by hermother and had beenlocked up. Nevertheless, she matured into an ordinary teenager, doing some modelling and going out with an Australian surfer called Alex while in Hong Kong. He returned to sit with the Conservative party in the House of Lords in September of that year. "I'm very, very private," she said from her office at Cond Nast. 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"). Source for information on Patten, Chris 1944-: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary. 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 . And yeah, I do get angry about things. 01 Dec 1990. 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. St Martin's Place Hong Kong's legacy from Chris Patten's Diaries to City on the Edge. Prices start at 6 for unframed prints, 25 for framed prints. It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large. Indian film, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23. To me, they're not a story, they're just my girls.". We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. I'll probably go to previews of her play, but I won't tell her I'm there to check she's all right, I'll probably end up going lots of times.". 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. 1979 . I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. 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