He returned to sit with the Conservative party in the House of Lords in September of that year. When they learn that their coach has died, they all return to New England with their families for the funeral. 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". Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. 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) He also helmed the initiative of passing the Environmental Protection Act 1990. 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. Showing Editorial results for chris patten. Chris Patten. Contributions are moderated. They bought the Daily Express in the days when it was a decent newspaper., His vocation was shaped more by the timing of his birth, which came with tragedy and hope built in. Tony Blair suggested that it made the road to democracy [in China] unstoppable. Read our, {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}. Tory! Patten was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! A year later, he became Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Open Daily: 10:30 - 18:00 Hong Kong's legacy from Chris Patten's Diaries to City on the Edge. 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. Now 28, she is a television producer at the BBC, making programmes for BBC Choice. Dominic Patten / Deadline: David Zaslav Praises CNN Adding More GOP Voices; "Balance Strategy" Is "Important," Warner Bros Discovery Boss Says . Donations welcome A Lancashire native, Patten grew up in London and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. 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. Lord Patten said China . Thats just good history.. Marisabina Russo, Russo, Marisabina 1950- Russo, Marisabina 1950- Personal Born May 1, 1950, in New York, NY; daughter of Michele Russo (a naval . 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. There she goes, one says, to which the other, thinking about mortality, replies: Yes but therell be others who will say, Here she comes. Though Patten likes that idea, the third possibility strikes him as most understandable: that we live on in people remembering our smiles. In 2004, she appeared in Jonathan Creek as Gillian Bailey. Grand promises made about one country, two systems mixed with anecdotes about the Pattens three daughters and two dogs. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. In October, he severely criticised the Hong Kong government for banning face masks. [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. 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. Their little sister, who was spotted by an agent last summer when she appeared in a student production at Cambridge, will be in her element in the West End. "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. Patten's most controversial actions in Hong Kong are related to the 1994 electoral reform. They're now grown up and all doing fine. Chris Patten. [22] BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. One time I. 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. We dont have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party. Chris Patten photographed at his home in London. Lord Patten married Lavender Thornton in 1971. 04 Dec 1998. 1 episode, Downtown Abbey (2014) as Diana Clark. After his loss in 1992, Patten declined the offer of a new seat and assumed the position of the 28th Governor of Hong Kong. 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. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC is a politician from Britain. The one he liked most was coined by an Episcopalian American missionary bishop who talked about being on the seashore with his friend. 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. 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. 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 . And cross-checking against my wifes diary, to make sure I had the days right.. He turns off a muted symphony when I arrive. Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. It was going to become part of China. On 9 September 1999, the Commission produced its report, entitled A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland and popularly known as the Patten Report, which contained 175 symbolic and practical recommendations. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired. 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. [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!!!. Had he not lost his own seat in Bath in that election, partly because he was associated with the poll tax, he would have become, at 48, chancellor of the exchequer. 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. 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. It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". He fears the results are being played out in Hong Kong. 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 . 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. 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. 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. and at Queens' College, Cambridge. Two books, one by the ex-governor and another by professor Ho-fung Hung, offer insights into China's savage repression . Visiting him is like stepping into a lost Conservative hinterland. (Photo by David Montgomery/Getty Images) PURCHASE A LICENSE Get personalized pricing by telling us when, where, and how you want to use this asset. In 2003, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford. And him looking at me mystified. Her father Leung Chun-ying called an ambulance to the Government House and told reporters that Chai-yan was under a lot of pressure as a young girl, that she has been seeking medical help. Lord Chris Patten, who has no power to remove the Rhodes statue at Oxford University's Oriel College, said a trust set up after the mining magnate's death pays for the education of more than a. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). [32] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor honoris causa by South East European University. The EU and Moldova. The plan was to hand the lot over to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, but he felt he should get it in order. 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. It's that kind of awful TV.". His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. Source for information on Patten, Chris 1944-: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary. : Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH PC 1944 512 - . He held the parliamentary seat until 1992. 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. 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. 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.. Before relinquishing the colonial administration to China in 1997, he was fighting daily battles, mostly verbal, with . By ticking permission to publish you are indicating your agreement for your contribution to be shown on this collection item page. [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. Posted By: VOHK April 12, 2016 By Chan King-cheung - Nevertheless, she matured into an ordinary teenager, doing some modelling and going out with an Australian surfer called Alex while in Hong Kong. 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". He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. 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. After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. If ever there as a contradiction in terms it is that. 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. 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. (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). Its funny you should say that. It wasnot the first time Hong Kong netizens posted photos of Pattens family, after they left the city in 1997. 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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. 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. 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. She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. 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. [17], Patten was the biggest proponent in the commission for Turkey's accession to the European Union. 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. There is an inevitable sentimental or nostalgic strain to Pattens diaries of 25 years ago, as he departed on the royal yacht. 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. "I was leaving my home, my friends, my school - my childhood - and I had only finished my A-levels the day before. "I'm the deputy beauty editor at Tatler, I'm very happy here, and that's it really. He kept a daily journal of his historic years in Hong Kong, partly on tape recordings. 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. He was born into an Irish Catholic family on his paternal side. 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. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. I listened to Sheila Hancock earlier talking about how one of the things about getting old is getting angrier. [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. Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. [27], Patten is a Catholic and oversaw Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. 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. 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. The Black Watch [the last British military unit to leave] werent going to hold Hong Kong against the Peoples Liberation Army. However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. | Contact Us | Newsletter | Annual & Transparency Report. On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. They had the mandate of heaven and I didnt even have the mandate of the voters of Bath. 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 . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 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. Enter your password to log in. Try AbeBooks. Patten lives in a large villa in Barnes in south-west London, next to the wooded common. 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. 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 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. We have been together for ages and he's wonderful. 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. His second thought was metaphor. That grim communist-speak.. "I'm very, very private," she said from her office at Cond Nast. Christopher Francis Patten was born on May 12 1944. Well, there are two elements to it. 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?. [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. Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. Delivery charges may apply. I take as my baseline what Nelson Mandela said about the Rhodes Trust, he 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. 1979 . The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten is published by Allen Lane . He made the case for negotiation rather than outright demands for independence. He laughs. Family (1) Spouse Lavender Thornton (1971 - present) (3 children) Trivia (4) Former Governor of Hong Kong. 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. St Martin's Place He was also the last governor of the colony, as it was transferred to Chinese control on June 30, 1997. Kris is HKFP's Editorial Director. He lost his first parliamentary election (for Lambeth Central) in 1974 against the Labour Party candidate Marcus Lipton. The family has enjoyed good image among the populace, contrasting oddly with the city's present first family hit by accusation of abuse of power. In the latest swing by CNN chief Chris Licht to rebrand the cable newser, Maher's appearance gave a bit of a preview of plans for the 9 PM ET slot, diverting from counter programming to . Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). 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'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. PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN STILLWELL/PA. And I just think Johnson is terribly wrong. Before that, he was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. [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. 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. Isnt deciding who we venerate a vital part of that reckoning also? Miserable times he writes. In 1990, he was appointed the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party. Anyway on we go, in my case to Strasbourg and treason the European parliament. Even for old Tories, hope springs eternal. I suggest the fractures go back to the 1990s. I have trained 5 . He garnered widespread criticism for the controversial Community Charge (or so-called "Poll Tax"). 1 episode, New Tricks (2010) as Vicky Anderson. He was the architect of Majors 1992 election victory, built on a belief that, post-Thatcher, the party must be tolerant, efficient and generous-spirited. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. W e had one of those thunderbolt feelings when we saw our main home in Barnes . He has been married to Lavender Thornton since 1971. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account, Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number, I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from Evening Standard. degree from the University of Bath. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. 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. Does he ever get mad, watching his lifes work, at home and abroad, unravel? The plans call for 21 apartment units . [26] They have three daughters, including the actress Alice Patten. Please Like other favourites! 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.. A month after her father was elected Chancellor of Oxford University,. "I thought there was a prospect that (China) would keep its word, and I'm sorry that it hasn't," he said in London. I think, first of all, people talk about American exceptionalism, try Chinese exceptionalism. Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong[1] In 1999, Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was in New York representing the European Commission. 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. And nobody should ever see the words Nadine Dorries and culture secretary in the same sentence.. 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. For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. 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". Patten was the Conservative Party candidate for Lambeth Central at the February 1974 general election, but lost to the Labour Party candidate, Marcus Lipton. 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. Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. 3 episodes, The Musketeers (2014) as Sister Hlne. His family was Irish Catholic. 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. 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