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 October, he severely criticised the Hong Kong government for banning face masks. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. And him looking at me mystified. Between 1974 and 1979, he served as the director of the Conservative Research Department. Press release from the City of Menifee: MENIFEE - Menifee's street projects and construction updates are getting an upgrade! When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired. He is the co-chair of International Crisis Group, overseeing many international operations. 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. 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. "I'm very, very private," she said from her office at Cond Nast. Photo by Fiona Hanson/PA He is also the one of only two living former governors of Hong Kong with Sir David Wilson. 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). Indian film, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23. Christopher Francis Patten was born on May 12 1944. 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). Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? Each email has a link to unsubscribe. Former Hong Kong Gov. Great Britain and the World. The one he liked most was coined by an Episcopalian American missionary bishop who talked about being on the seashore with his friend. 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. As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory at the 1992 general election. Patten and his time in Hong Kong was the subject of the 5-part documentary series The Last Governor, which was filmed throughout his time in Hong Kong, including his arrival, key moments of his government such as the 1995 elections and his final day in office, ending as he departs Government House for the last time. He made the case for negotiation rather than outright demands for independence. In May, Laura married Elton Charles, a florist from Paddington, whom she met seven years ago. This wasnt a colony like any other. In a speech on the future of the BBC, which he said was "one of this country's greatest institutions", Patten called on ministers to respect the "besieged" broadcaster's independence, and set in place measures to stop it becoming "the plaything of the government of the day". 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. Please Like other favourites! A colleague who works with Kate at the BBC describes her as "serious and hard-working". His father was a jazz drummer who later became a popular music publisher. Patten was the Conservative Party candidate for Lambeth Central at the February 1974 general election, but lost to the Labour Party candidate, Marcus Lipton. Alice was only 12 when she arrived in Hong Kong, and while her sisters returned to Britain to school and university, she grew up amid the marble-corridored glory of Government House where men in white gloves picked her socks up off the floor and served her meals. 3 episodes, The Musketeers (2014) as Sister Hlne. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. John Majors bastards have long since taken over. Patten was not a career diplomat, unlike the previous governors. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. 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. But the debate goes on.. 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. "I thought there was a prospect that (China) would keep its word, and I'm sorry that it hasn't," he said in London. 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. Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944 in Ealing, London, England. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 2023 Hong Kong news - Independent, non-profit, impartial. Reading it, you cant help but reflect on an essential loss of rigour in Britains dealings with the world; contrast the likes of Douglas Hurd and Malcolm Rifkind as foreign secretaries with the incumbent, Liz Truss. "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 lives in a large villa in Barnes in south-west London, next to the wooded common. A caption was changed to correct a date: Chris Patten received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1998; not 1989. On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. "They didn't have the choice. He was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong, serving between 1992 and 1997. 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. In 1966, Chris Patten became involved with the Conservative Party. How do you know this? We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. Tony Blair suggested that it made the road to democracy [in China] unstoppable. 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[23], In September 2020, he wrote that "Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping's dictatorship is certainly thuggish. And they hate it when we do.. As the last Governor of Hong Kong, he supervised the final years of British governance in the colony and readied it for the transition to Chinese control in 1997. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chris_Patten_-2008-10-31-.jpg, https://flickr.com/photos/ukinfrance/11115110006, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3MtANpVq6s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkYBUBJgws. In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. 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. 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. Tory! Patten seems a consummately relaxed 78. Dominic Patten / Deadline: David Zaslav Praises CNN Adding More GOP Voices; "Balance Strategy" Is "Important," Warner Bros Discovery Boss Says . Tory! 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. If you require information from us, please use our Archive enquiry service. He was then an EU commissioner, partly responsible for the unions foreign policy. 01 Dec 1990. Patten's most controversial actions in Hong Kong are related to the 1994 electoral reform. Miserable times he writes. help his daughter bypass airport security rules, I can finally breathe: Some celebrate the end of Hong Kongs Covid mask rule, but most remain cautious, US politicians call for sanctions on Hong Kong prosecutors in 47 democrats case; Beijing slams hypocritic political show, In Pictures: Hong Kong bids farewell to Pennys Bay Covid facility with giant padlock and Auld Lang Syne, Hong Kong 47: Prosecutors to seek witness anonymity order as trial adjourned over defendants injury, Covid-19: Medic urges Hong Kong students to remove face masks to improve learning, immunity, Artist Vaevae Chan spent years building a cave in a Hong Kong high rise. Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. Well, there are two elements to it. Consider its policies in Xinjiang. (30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound The last . Patten said afterwards the Royal Pageant had not been the BBC's "finest hour" and admitted that "The tone was wrong."[21]. 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. 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. 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 . "She's very popular here, partly because she pulls her weight, partly because she's fun too. 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 . Laura, Kate and little Alice, the daughters of the last Governor Chris Patten, were only in their early teens when they became unlikely celebrities. After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. I take as my baseline what Nelson Mandela said about the Rhodes Trust, he says. 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. [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. Its not woke to do that. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. His first job in the party was as a desk officer. Thats just good history.. 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. 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. His latest sermon outlined three possibilities. Lenny rents the lake house for the 4th . To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Patten's defeat was attributed to factors such as the Poll Tax.[6]. And I just think Johnson is terribly wrong. 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 . 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. He turns off a muted symphony when I arrive. And nobody should ever see the words Nadine Dorries and culture secretary in the same sentence.. [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. 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. Laura patten Stock Photos and Images. Its too depressing to think about, Patten says. Reading his 2017 memoir, First Confession, I was struck by how much his faith meant to him. East and West. Rt hon chris patten ch former governor and commander-in-chief hong kong with his wife lavender and daughters left to right kate laura and alice at buckingham palace to receive his invest. On John Major's succession as Prime Minister in 1990, Patten became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Do you think that they always saw through that? 1 episode, Merlin (20092010) as Ygraine. The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. 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