Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944, in Cleveleys, Lancashire, England, to Frank and Joan Patten. 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. Nevertheless, she matured into an ordinary teenager, doing some modelling and going out with an Australian surfer called Alex while in Hong Kong. On the table is the book hes just put down, Julia Boyds A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism, and a copy of his own new book, The Hong Kong Diaries, which is the occasion for our meeting. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled. Posted By: VOHK April 12, 2016 By Chan King-cheung - For a decade between 1999 and 2009, he was the Chancellor of Newcastle University. I think, first of all, people talk about American exceptionalism, try Chinese exceptionalism. Its too depressing to think about, Patten says. It wasnot the first time Hong Kong netizens posted photos of Pattens family, after they left the city in 1997. I suggest the fractures go back to the 1990s. 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"She's very popular here, partly because she pulls her weight, partly because she's fun too. All contributions are moderated. 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). Search instead in Creative? On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. He lost his first parliamentary election (for Lambeth Central) in 1974 against the Labour Party candidate Marcus Lipton. 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. During his tenure, his government significantly expanded the territory's social welfare programmes and introduced democratic reforms to the electoral system.[2]. Christopher Francis Patten Visitor Chancellor of the University Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. Between 1998 and 1999, Chris Patten served as the Chairperson of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland. Do you think it was also their belief that the British government had deluded itself about its own purpose? After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. 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? 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 two posts combined had received more than 8,000 likes and 700 shares by Monday morning. His father was a jazz drummer who later became a popular music publisher. He described the government as shameful and seedy. 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. In the 1998 New Year Honours, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Companion of Honour (CH).[31]. The former Conservative party chairman and current rebellious Tory peer was dismayed to see the Johnson cult still hanging on. The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten is published by Allen Lane . 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, New Tricks (2010) as Vicky Anderson. 07 Sep 1998. At which point, the young mans lovely girlfriend just burst into tears. If you tick permission to publish your name will appear above your contribution on our website. Well, there are two elements to it. 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. 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. 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. 1 episode, Downtown Abbey (2014) as Diana Clark. Loree Seitz / The Wrap: David Zaslav Signals Confidence in CNN Chief Chris Licht: . CH PC Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes 1944512 Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 19921997 He kept a daily journal of his historic years in Hong Kong, partly on tape recordings. Patten was not a career diplomat, unlike the previous governors. 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)). [23], In September 2020, he wrote that "Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping's dictatorship is certainly thuggish. 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"). Consider its policies in Xinjiang. In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong and a former EU commissioner for external affairs, is Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the author of The Hong Kong Diaries (Allen Lane, 2022). 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. Its an aspect of a mature patriotism to look at both the good bit and the bad bits. Chris Patten is Chancellor of Oxford University. 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. Chris Patten. 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. 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. 04 Dec 1998. The first was a literalist one based on a reading by Ronald Knox, who was chaplain to Catholic students at Oxford. His background is decidedly unstarry: his mother is a housewife from Dominica, his father worked as a warehouseman. Raised in west London, Patten studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. 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]. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003. 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. Ann Lewis. The Legislative Council became a fully elected legislature for the first time in 1995 and extensively expanded its functions and organisations throughout the last years of colonial rule.[10]. It's 25 years since Hong Kong was handed back to China in June 1997. 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. I train athletes looking for upgrades to their shooting, ball handling, court awareness, and post play skills. The 42-year-old musician's family confirmed to People magazine that Hannah Price, who was found dead in her home two . Yana Gupta. Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. The EU and Moldova. After he left Hong Kong, Patten was part of the EU team that negotiated Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization in 2002. Former Hong Kong Gov. 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 . If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. 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 JACK HILL. Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. Kris Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist with an interest in local politics. Hong Kong news Independent, impartial, non-profit. Bartis Edmond Hawley-Wall, Kyler Havard, Zealot23, Nich Smith, Matt Koltes, Chris Mulvihill . The good old days when HK was the Pearl of the Orient, one commentator said, which was liked more than 250times. He is the co-chair of International Crisis Group, overseeing many international operations. 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. The most depressing thing is Ive been watching interviews with ministers this evening, he said, and the titles alone are so depressing. Many international lawyers argue that the incarceration of over one million Muslim Uighurs, forced sterilisation and abortion, and slave labour meet the UN definition of genocide. He was educated in modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a second-class honors degree in 1965. He also introduced, and steered through Parliament, the major legislation that became the Environmental Protection Act 1990. St Mary's Barnes, United Kingdom, SW13 9HL. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. 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. We have been together for ages and he's wonderful. 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. Tue 28th June 2022. "I'm very, very private," she said from her office at Cond Nast. I talk in the diaries about trying to explain to my opposite number in Beijing what the rule of law was, that it wasnt rule by law. 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. At Queens College, Cambridge - where a month ago she achieved a "slightly disappointing" 2:2 in modern languages, she went out with Jordan Frieda, the son of Lulu and hairdresser John Frieda. Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944 in Ealing, London, England. Patten lives in a large villa in Barnes in south-west London, next to the wooded common. 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. She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. Indian film, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23. Connor Patten Basketball. 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. Chris Patten at his home in Barnes. (MANDATORY CREDIT David Montgomery/Getty Images) Laura Patten, the daughter of Chris Patten, the new Governor of Hong Kong, in Hong Kong, 1st August 1992. "This is where I'm happiest: on stage," she says. In May, Laura married Elton Charles, a florist from Paddington, whom she met seven years ago. (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. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). In 2003 he was awarded an honorary LL.D. "I just find it intensely difficult. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of . During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. We'll need your email address so that we can follow up on the information provided and contact you to let you know when your contribution has been published. And nobody should ever see the words Nadine Dorries and culture secretary in the same sentence.. Patten's most controversial actions in Hong Kong are related to the 1994 electoral reform. The Billionaire's Daughter Knows What You're Thinking. [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 has been an opponent of the movement at Oxford to tear down the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. Donations welcome She threatened to leave home forever on social media. The daughters of Chris Patten, (l to r) Laura, Kate and Alice, say a tearful goodbye to Hong Kong, from on board the Royal yacht Britannia. Can you tell us more about this person? [17], According to information from the US Embassy in Brussels (published by WikiLeaks in November 2010): Patten said in April 2004 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has done a good job for Russia mainly due to high world energy prices, but he had serious doubts about the man's character. 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. 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. 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. 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. Kris is HKFP's Editorial Director. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. But there was a bigger question, which I think framed the whole problem. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. 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. * Academics were turning out in full regalia for a procession and ceremony at . All real Hong Kongers miss the Patten family very much. 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. Support HKFP | Code of Ethics | Error/typo? 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. Verden, Alexander Griffiths, SnipsGTI, Brian Sousa, bilbens baggo, Stuart, IbKelek, Galygious, Andrew Patton, Nicole Patten, Clementine . 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. 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