As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory at the 1992 general election. He also introduced, and steered through Parliament, the major legislation that became the Environmental Protection Act 1990. 01 Dec 1990. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. [27], Patten is a Catholic and oversaw Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. 1 episode, Vincent In Brixton (2003) as Eugenie Loyer, Rang De Eugenie Loyer. Patten's defeat was attributed to factors such as the Poll Tax.[6]. It is certainly important to use Rhodes money for more black African students. (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). 1 episode, Merlin (20092010) as Ygraine. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. Enter your password to log in. 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". There is a 1930s village atmosphere, which bankers and lawyers now pay 5m to inhabit. [13] He has since commented that his governorship of Hong Kong was a happy time for him personally as he shared this experience with his wife and children. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? "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. The first was a literalist one based on a reading by Ronald Knox, who was chaplain to Catholic students at Oxford. Friday & Saturday 10:30 - 21:00. His job was to accumulate information on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley, Jr. He put out his memoir, 'Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs', on September 29, 2005. Read our, {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}. Indian film, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23. Search instead in Creative? Photo: AFP/WTN Chris has an amazing sense of humour. Leung Chai-yan, the other daughter of the Chief Executive, claimed she was domestically abused by hermother and had beenlocked up. JACK HILL. The former Conservative party chairman and current rebellious Tory peer was dismayed to see the Johnson cult still hanging on. Simply to denounce it seems crazy. 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In June 1983, he was made the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office. Showing Editorial results for chris patten. [32] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor honoris causa by South East European University. 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. What the Chinese have done in Xinjiang is wicked. If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. If you tick permission to publish your name will appear above your contribution on our website. [17], Patten was the biggest proponent in the commission for Turkey's accession to the European Union. 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, 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. 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. In 1966, Chris Patten became involved with the Conservative Party. degree from the University of Ulster. . After his loss in 1992, Patten declined the offer of a new seat and assumed the position of the 28th Governor of Hong Kong. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. Great Britain and the World. degree from the University of Trinity College, Toronto and an honorary D.Litt. And nobody should ever see the words Nadine Dorries and culture secretary in the same sentence.. The 1996 Hong Kong parody film Bodyguards of the Last Governor, presents 'Christ Pattern' as the Governor of Hong Kong. Ann Lewis. "I cried all day," she says of her very public departure. 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. 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. Support HKFP | Code of Ethics | Error/typo? Chris Patten is Chancellor of Oxford University. He was educated in modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a second-class honors degree in 1965. I have trained 5 . "Her last one was a series about boxing. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations with other readers. With wife, Lavender, and daughters (from left) Kate, Laura and Alice, after receiving the Order of the Companions of Honour at Buckingham Palace in 1998. ad things gone differently for him in 1992, it is quite possible to imagine that Patten could have been the first Catholic prime minister of Britain. From 2014 to 2016, he worked under Pope Francis as the head of the body that advises the Vatican on media strategy. 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 . Hardback. Tv film Basanti (2006) as Sue McKinley. He was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 until 1997, Chairman for the Independent Commission on Policing after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 . 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. In 2005, he became an appointed member of the British peerage. Millions of premium Stock photos and illustrations created by leading commercial photographers, world-famous Museums, Historical Archives and Private Collections. 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. Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. In 2003, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford. n Hong Kong, they were known as the Three Graces. Try AbeBooks. 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. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. Its a strange thing to reinhabit the years of Pattens book, the last trappings of British empire dissolving in a series of intractable negotiations with the Beijing government. How Covid helped China tighten its hold on Hong Kong, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. In 2004, she appeared in Jonathan Creek as Gillian Bailey. How do you know this? 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. [28], In February 2010, Patten was appointed President of Medical Aid for Palestinians, but he stepped down in June 2011. [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. I think, first of all, people talk about American exceptionalism, try Chinese exceptionalism. [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!!!. St Mary's Barnes, United Kingdom, SW13 9HL. Western governments, Patten believes, have been wrong because of greed to give Xi Jinpings regime an easier ride than Vladimir Putins. His family lived in Greenford, and Chris Patten went to primary school there and then won a scholarship to the Catholic St Benedict's. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. He made the case for negotiation rather than outright demands for independence. 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. 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. Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last governor of Hong Kong. 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. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than him. In November 2016 Patten was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour, and was presented with the award by the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom Sylvie Bermann at Kensington Palace Gardens. [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. 04 Dec 1998. 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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. This article about an English actor is a stub. Raised in west London, Patten studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. "They didn't have the choice. Views expressed by opinion writers and advertisers are not necessarily shared by HKFP. For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. Kris Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist with an interest in local politics. Theyre watching a ship under full sail heading over the horizon at dusk. Reading his 2017 memoir, First Confession, I was struck by how much his faith meant to him. 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 . Im grateful for your support, I love you Hong Kong, a poston the Alice Patten Facebook page said. Kris is HKFP's Editorial Director. 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. Its funny you should say that. Something went wrong. Between 1974 and 1979, he served as the director of the Conservative Research Department. Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944 in Ealing, London, England. In 1990, he was appointed the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party. [8], In contrast to his predecessors, Patten decided not to wear the official Court uniform on formal occasions. (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. This account already exists. Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. On 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.[16]. I'm absolutely proud of them, they're all doing terrifically well. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled. But the last two Ive done involved preaching on the days when the readings were about death and afterwards.. 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 reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. Alice has obviously chosen to go into a world that's amazing and stuff, which will obviously attract attention, but she's my dearest best friend, she's absolutely amazing, and I know she'll be a huge star. That grim communist-speak.. What theyre doing in Hong Kong is wicked. [33], University roles and elevation to the peerage, BBC royal river pageant outside broadcast, Critical studies and reviews of Patten's work. 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. [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. Between February 2010 and June 2011, he served as the President of Medical Aid for Palestinians. 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. 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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. He has a BSSc in Sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Patten was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Try AbeBooks. It's that kind of awful TV.". [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 is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. I take as my baseline what Nelson Mandela said about the Rhodes Trust, he says. According to information from WikiLeaks, Patten was in Moscow in April 2004 and had concluded EURussia ministerial consultations in Brussels. We werent preparing it for independence. Press release from the City of Menifee: MENIFEE - Menifee's street projects and construction updates are getting an upgrade! Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. He kept a daily journal of his historic years in Hong Kong, partly on tape recordings. He was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong, serving between 1992 and 1997. "This is where I'm happiest: on stage," she says. He was the architect of Major's 1992 election victory, built on a belief that, post-Thatcher, the party must be "tolerant,. Patten said afterwards the Royal Pageant had not been the BBC's "finest hour" and admitted that "The tone was wrong."[21]. His background is decidedly unstarry: his mother is a housewife from Dominica, his father worked as a warehouseman. 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. Do you think it was also their belief that the British government had deluded itself about its own purpose? Patten, a practising Catholic, has been disturbed in particular by the recent crackdown on religion and the arrest of Cardinal Zen, the churchs primate in Hong Kong. It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. A month after her father was elected Chancellor of Oxford University,. Grand promises made about one country, two systems mixed with anecdotes about the Pattens three daughters and two dogs. 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. 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. 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. Open Daily: 10:30 - 18:00 Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. Keir Starmer demands Covid inquiry reports by end of year, Police scour woodland in search for Constance Martens baby, Dozens killed after passenger and freight train collide in Greece, Hancock under fire over care home deaths and chaotic Covid response, London Bridge overcrowding: Give TfL control of Southeastern trains, Number of children in food poverty near double in a year to 4 million, Putins 274mil spy plane destroyed by drones at air base in Belarus, What is the Willow Project? During his time in Hong Kong, Patten and his government considerably increased the reach of the territory's social welfare programmes and brought about democratic reforms to the electoral system. Concepts like that were mysterious to them. On 29 September 2005, he published his memoirs, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs. # x27 ; s Barnes, United Kingdom in September 2010 Havard, Zealot23, Nich Smith, Matt,... 1979, he was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong were days... 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