The one he liked most was coined by an Episcopalian American missionary bishop who talked about being on the seashore with his friend. 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). Before relinquishing the colonial administration to China in 1997, he was fighting daily battles, mostly verbal, with . To me, they're not a story, they're just my girls.". They have three children. 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 . What the Chinese have done in Xinjiang is wicked. In October, he severely criticised the Hong Kong government for banning face masks. [32] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor honoris causa by South East European University. And him looking at me mystified. In the 1998 New Year Honours, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Companion of Honour (CH).[31]. Please refresh the page and/or try again. He was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 until 1997, Chairman for the Independent Commission on Policing after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 . In 1990, he was appointed the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party. While he basically orchestrated the Conservative victory in the general election of 1992, he lost his own MP seat at Bath. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. [29], In 2014 Pope Francis appointed Patten to head a body to advise the Vatican on media strategy and on how to handle the press, which he remained on until 2016. It wasnot the first time Hong Kong netizens posted photos of Pattens family, after they left the city in 1997. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. Miserable times he writes. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. 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, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC is a politician from Britain. He was also the last governor of the colony, as it was transferred to Chinese control on June 30, 1997. Well, there are two elements to it. Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post: Trump may be . At which point, the young mans lovely girlfriend just burst into tears. 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. That grim communist-speak.. They're now grown up and all doing fine. Before that, he was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. Christopher Francis Patten Visitor Chancellor of the University 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. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). 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. 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). 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. 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]. I mean, it was a colonial project. Try AbeBooks. THE youngest daughter of Chris Patten is to star in a "lusty" BBC One drama about the life and loves of King Charles II. Patten was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office in June 1983. Receiving a Coolidge travelling scholarship, he went to US, where he was part of the campaign of then-Republican New York Mayor John Lindsay. 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. [28], In February 2010, Patten was appointed President of Medical Aid for Palestinians, but he stepped down in June 2011. People said to him he couldnt talk to students about death, but he thought, why not? 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?. [33], University roles and elevation to the peerage, BBC royal river pageant outside broadcast, Critical studies and reviews of Patten's work. Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than him. 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. Please note your email address will not be displayed on the page nor will it be used for any marketing material or promotion of any kind. 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. 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? Which he thought was something which was valuable to South Africa. (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. 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. 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. If you tick permission to publish your name will appear above your contribution on our website. Chris Patten is Chancellor of Oxford University. 10 Jun 2008. If ever there as a contradiction in terms it is that. 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. Reading his 2017 memoir, First Confession, I was struck by how much his faith meant to him. 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. [22] BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. 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. 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. 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. Rather than use her name to her advantage, Laura has quietly worked her way up in the magazine world, beginning with three weeks work experience on Vogue, followed by a job at Harpers and Queen, then Vanity Fair, culminating in her present position at Tatler where she is known as hard-working and unpretentious. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? His family was Irish Catholic. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. [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. Commentaries Videos & Podcasts Author's Comments Sort by: Latest Popular Show: All On Point 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.. The good old days when HK was the Pearl of the Orient, one commentator said, which was liked more than 250times. Patten was Chancellor of Newcastle University from 1999 to 2009. 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. A year later, he became Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. 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. Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. Chris Patten. A month after her father was elected Chancellor of Oxford University,. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired. His first job in the party was as a desk officer. A practising Roman Catholic, he organized Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. If you require information from us, please use our Archive enquiry service. Chris Patten at his home in Barnes. It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". Hobbies and other interests: Tennis, reading, browsing in bookshops. +44(0)20 7306 0055, Admission free. The latter initiative was heavily criticised in China, with one Chinese media outlet calling him a wrongdoer who would be condemned for a thousand generations. . [citation needed]. Then chairman of the BBC Trust, fighting a rearguard action against cuts. "I cried all day," she says of her very public departure. Laura, Kate and little Alice, the daughters of the last Governor Chris Patten, were only in their early teens when they became unlikely celebrities. John Majors bastards have long since taken over. 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. "They didn't have the choice. CH PC Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes 1944512 Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 19921997 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. 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. In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. What I should say, he said, is that we dont have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party which is populist, but fatally without being popular.. The Hong Kong Diaries is published on 21 June by Allen Lane (30). Tory! 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. "[12] This marked the end of British rule in Hong Kong. Like Laura, she has also spent the past five years quietly pursuing her career. For a decade between 1999 and 2009, he was the Chancellor of Newcastle University. [9] Patten's approval rating in Hong Kong in April 1992 was 53% and ended his tenure with an approval rating of 59.7%.[4]. 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. But there was a bigger question, which I think framed the whole problem. 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