[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. As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. Although supportive of Alice, they seem wary that her success will reignite interest in the family. Each email has a link to unsubscribe. 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. 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. What the Chinese have done in Xinjiang is wicked. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Theyre watching a ship under full sail heading over the horizon at dusk. But life as just another face in the crowd never seemed likely for the Patten girls and now, Alice, the youngest of the three daughters, has just landed her first big acting role in Nicholas Wright's Vincent in Brixton, which opened on Monday in the West End. Contact Us 1 episode, Jonathan Creek (2004) as Dawn/Gillian Bailey. 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 . 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How do you know this? Patten's defeat was attributed to factors such as the Poll Tax.[6]. 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. After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. 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 . Between February 2010 and June 2011, he served as the President of Medical Aid for Palestinians. We should say so. The most depressing thing is Ive been watching interviews with ministers this evening, he said, and the titles alone are so depressing. Nevertheless, she matured into an ordinary teenager, doing some modelling and going out with an Australian surfer called Alex while in Hong Kong. In 1966, Chris Patten became involved with the Conservative Party. In 2005, he became an appointed member of the British peerage. It's that kind of awful TV.". In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. "I thought there was a prospect that (China) would keep its word, and I'm sorry that it hasn't," he said in London. 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.. Before that she was doing a series called Rock Shrines, about dead pop stars and their fans. They had the mandate of heaven and I didnt even have the mandate of the voters of Bath. Visiting him is like stepping into a lost Conservative hinterland. Ann Lewis. 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. 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! People said to him he couldnt talk to students about death, but he thought, why not? Chris Pratt is being called "cringe and vile" for praising his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, for giving him a "healthy daughter" given that his son with ex Anna Faris, Jack, has suffered. I occasionally get asked to preach in college chapels. During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. Two books, one by the ex-governor and another by professor Ho-fung Hung, offer insights into China's savage repression . The gracious, book-lined sitting room gives out on to a generous garden. Alice Patten. "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. His family lived in Greenford, and Chris Patten went to primary school there and then won a scholarship to the Catholic St Benedict's. THE youngest daughter of Chris Patten is to star in a "lusty" BBC One drama about the life and loves of King Charles II. : Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH PC 1944 512 - . Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC is a politician from Britain. 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. 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. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). In May, Laura married Elton Charles, a florist from Paddington, whom she met seven years ago. After the speech in 2017, he says, there was a Q&A. He is also the one of only two living former governors of Hong Kong with Sir David Wilson. degree from the University of Trinity College, Toronto and an honorary D.Litt. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. We have been together for ages and he's wonderful. The good old days when HK was the Pearl of the Orient, one commentator said, which was liked more than 250times. Concepts like that were mysterious to them. Chris Patten is calling for the European Union to throw out its trade agreement with China. 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. 2 episodes, Where the Heart Is (2003) as Candida Oliver-Watts. "Kate makes documentaries now," says her mother, who trained as a barrister, but currently works as a mediator for couples whose marriages have broken down. After he left Hong Kong, Patten was part of the EU team that negotiated Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization in 2002. He has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2005. 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. Please Like other favourites! (30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound The last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten has left his colonial-style mansion for good.Patten bade his 250 staff an emotional. Please note that we cannot provide valuations. Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944, in Cleveleys, Lancashire, England, to Frank and Joan Patten. Then chairman of the BBC Trust, fighting a rearguard action against cuts. Photo: AFP/WTN Chris has an amazing sense of humour. . 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. Your contributions must be polite and with no intention of causing trouble. 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.. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. Chris Patten. We would welcome any information that adds to and enhances our information and understanding about a particular portrait, sitter or artist. London, WC2H 0HE "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. 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. He might just have got through the modest . He was one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. The Black Watch [the last British military unit to leave] werent going to hold Hong Kong against the Peoples Liberation Army. To me, they're not a story, they're just my girls.". [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. 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. Patten was born in 1944 on the day the German army was driven out of Crimea. The daughter of the last British governor of Hong Kong has receiveda recent outpouring of affection from Hongkongers, following an incident in whichthe Chief Executive allegedly used his privilegestohelp his daughter bypass airport security rules. I mean, it was a colonial project. In October, he severely criticised the Hong Kong government for banning face masks. 07 Sep 1998. Kris Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist with an interest in local politics. "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.". 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. Source for information on Patten, Chris 1944-: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary. 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. 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. I take as my baseline what Nelson Mandela said about the Rhodes Trust, he says. They bought the. 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. 04 Dec 1998. 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. Despite this, he enjoyed significant popularity in Hong Kong. Bartis Edmond Hawley-Wall, Kyler Havard, Zealot23, Nich Smith, Matt Koltes, Chris Mulvihill . And nobody should ever see the words Nadine Dorries and culture secretary in the same sentence.. Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944 in Ealing, London, England. Alice Patten is a English actress appeared in film Rang De Basanti opposite Aamir Khan.The British actress is daughter of politician Chris Patten, she played character Sue who came to India to make a documentary film about the British rule. He put out his memoir, 'Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs', on September 29, 2005. 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. And cross-checking against my wifes diary, to make sure I had the days right.. He laughs. For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. "We are very, very happy together," she says. 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. Chris Patten. 01 Dec 1990. His work has been featured in Washington Post, Public Radio International, Hong Kong Economic Times and others. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Like Laura, she has also spent the past five years quietly pursuing her career. 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. 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. He was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 until 1997, Chairman for the Independent Commission on Policing after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 . A month after her father was elected Chancellor of Oxford University,. Isnt deciding who we venerate a vital part of that reckoning also? [citation needed]. 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. He was educated in modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a second-class honors degree in 1965. 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. 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. Search instead in Creative? (30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound The last . The sometime barbed comedian made a point of noting that if octogenarian Biden isn't at the top of the Democrats' '24 ticket, 76-year old Donald Trump has a good chance of returning to the White House.. 10 Jun 2008. This wasnt a colony like any other. [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 was not a career diplomat, unlike the previous governors. Tv film Basanti (2006) as Sue McKinley. 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. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations. Its been a very long nervous breakdown. His job was to accumulate information on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley, Jr. 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. 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". It came, however, immediately in the wake of widespread criticism of the BBC's live outside-broadcast coverage of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee River Pageant on 3 June 2012, which was castigated in the press and was the subject of 1,830 formal complaints by viewers. His family was Irish Catholic. And him looking at me mystified. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. I train athletes looking for upgrades to their shooting, ball handling, court awareness, and post play skills. He was, of course, Britains last governor of Hong Kong, lampooned in Private Eye as the grand poobah, before the handover to China in 1997. . Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. Press release from the City of Menifee: MENIFEE - Menifee's street projects and construction updates are getting an upgrade! Chris Patten, who led Britain's last government in Hong Kong before the Asian financial hub was returned to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997, said it was "heartbreaking" to see its transformation. 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. (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). 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. Try AbeBooks. 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. In the 1998 New Year Honours, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Companion of Honour (CH).[31]. 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]. 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 . 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. 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. "She travelled to cities such as San Francisco for Rock Shrines," he says. His wifes father competed in the 1936 Olympics, part of that Chariots of Fire generation, and was killed in 1944. In 1979, he won his first parliamentary election to become an MP from Bath. His latest sermon outlined three possibilities. 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)). 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) "I'm very, very private," she said from her office at Cond Nast. 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. I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. In 2004, she appeared in Jonathan Creek as Gillian Bailey. He followed that up with the job of which he is most proud establishing a new, non-sectarian police force in Northern Ireland, as part of the Good Friday agreement. They're now grown up and all doing fine. "I was leaving my home, my friends, my school - my childhood - and I had only finished my A-levels the day before. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. A caption was changed to correct a date: Chris Patten received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1998; not 1989. Lavender doesnt entirely approve; I think she fears it makes me a tad sanctimonious. [26] They have three daughters, including the actress Alice Patten. 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. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. 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