Hardback. [7], Patten's tenure faced several different challenges, as many in Hong Kong were still reeling from the Tiananmen Square massacre a few years earlier. And him looking at me mystified. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? We're completely supportive of her and backing her 110 per cent. But what if youre wrong? 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. "It spits in the face of human rights and shows a delusional view of the Chinese Communist Party's trustworthiness on the international stage," Patten is quoted by the Daily Mail.. His comments came as 53 people were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of "subversion" in Hong Kong. Tory! However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. [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. Support HKFP | Code of Ethics | Error/typo? In 2003, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford. His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). "I thought there was a prospect that (China) would keep its word, and I'm sorry that it hasn't," he said in London. A year later, he became Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. Leung Chai-yan, the other daughter of the Chief Executive, claimed she was domestically abused by hermother and had beenlocked up. 1 episode, New Tricks (2010) as Vicky Anderson. A month after her father was elected Chancellor of Oxford University,. I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. [15] This report led to the disbanding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and establishment of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. He lost his first parliamentary election (for Lambeth Central) in 1974 against the Labour Party candidate Marcus Lipton. 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. 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. Its funny you should say that. Kate, who missed her father's signing-in as Governor when she chose instead to go trekking with friends around South America, spent the least time in Hong Kong because she was studying for a degree in Spanish and Latin American studies at Newcastle University. I'm absolutely proud of them, they're all doing terrifically well. In 2016, in the wake of a student movement to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes from a college in Oxford, as had happened in South Africa, Patten said that Oxford students who did not like Cecil Rhodes should "think about being educated elsewhere". [citation needed]. According to information from WikiLeaks, Patten was in Moscow in April 2004 and had concluded EURussia ministerial consultations in Brussels. He described the government as shameful and seedy. Alice Patten. Chris Patten. (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. [26] They have three daughters, including the actress Alice Patten. "She's very popular here, partly because she pulls her weight, partly because she's fun too. 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. The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten is published by Allen Lane . Patten. 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 . In 2010, The Tablet named him as one of Britain's most influential Catholics. While he basically orchestrated the Conservative victory in the general election of 1992, he lost his own MP seat at Bath. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. 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. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. Contributions are moderated. +44(0)20 7306 0055, Admission free. [2][3], Her first major role after graduation was Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton in the West End in 2002.[4]. His wifes father competed in the 1936 Olympics, part of that Chariots of Fire generation, and was killed in 1944. 1 episode, Downtown Abbey (2014) as Diana Clark. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART Between February 2010 and June 2011, he served as the President of Medical Aid for Palestinians. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( Chinese: ; [1] born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. For a decade between 1999 and 2009, he was the Chancellor of Newcastle University. He was European Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004 and Chairman of the BBC Trust from 2011 to 2014. He is known for Tory! (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). Patten was noted to be in tears throughout the day, notably after his speech at Tamar. His background is decidedly unstarry: his mother is a housewife from Dominica, his father worked as a warehouseman. Showing Editorial results for chris patten. He put out his memoir, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs, on September 29, 2005. 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 . (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. Tory! Photo by Fiona Hanson/PA 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. Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong[1] 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. Well, there are two elements to it. Nostalgia for theformer first family was also invokedby an incident in March last year. You can see it in the language used by [former Hong Kong chief executive] Carrie Lam and now this terrible policeman who is her successor, John Lee. Theyre watching a ship under full sail heading over the horizon at dusk. 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. 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. 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". Hong Kong's legacy from Chris Patten's Diaries to City on the Edge. Patten is portrayed the video game Hong Kong 97 as ordering Chin, an unspecified relative of Bruce Lee, to massacre the entire population of mainland China. Posted By: VOHK April 12, 2016 By Chan King-cheung - 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. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. 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. Join our newsletter and follow us on our social media channels to find out more about exhibitions, events and the people and portraits in our Collection. 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. Blonde and elfin, Alice - who was nicknamed "Little Princess" by her sisters - found it perhaps hardest of all to adjust to returning to Britain. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. (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. [28], In February 2010, Patten was appointed President of Medical Aid for Palestinians, but he stepped down in June 2011. 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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. In June 1983, he was made the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office. Patten's defeat was attributed to factors such as the Poll Tax.[6]. Do you think it was also their belief that the British government had deluded itself about its own purpose? He held the parliamentary seat until 1992. 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. After graduating, she took a job with billionaire Peter Woo's Wharf Cable TV channel, before graduating to work on Esther Rantzen's That's Life! 1 episode, Heroes and Villains (2008) as Joan. 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". Patten lives in a large villa in Barnes in south-west London, next to the wooded common. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) has become a single womanizer. It's 25 years since Hong Kong was handed back to China in June 1997. 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.. A practising Roman Catholic, he organized Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. 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. I have trained 5 . His role however is minor as the film depicts him being replaced with one month to go before the handover. 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. 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. Isnt deciding who we venerate a vital part of that reckoning also? 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) 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. and at Queens' College, Cambridge. 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 May, Laura married Elton Charles, a florist from Paddington, whom she met seven years ago. "Her last one was a series about boxing. Chris Patten Writing for PS since 2000 151 Commentaries 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). It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. Lenny rents the lake house for the 4th . They have three children. Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. The Black Watch [the last British military unit to leave] werent going to hold Hong Kong against the Peoples Liberation Army. 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. They bought the. Hong Kong netizens have been posting old photos of Chris Patten's three daughters Laura, Kate and Alice when they were in Hong Kong, since the incident involving Leung Chun-yan, the Chief. It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". "I don't think they ever wanted to be in the limelight, these decisions are not necessarily there to be made - it's a question of how one stays out of the limelight, rather than wanting to be in it," Mrs Patten said from the family holiday home in France. 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. Try AbeBooks. [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!!!. "They didn't have the choice. And I dont see what pulls the party together again. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. East and West HB Spec Ed. 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