Friday & Saturday 10:30 - 21:00. And I dont see what pulls the party together again. The good old days when HK was the Pearl of the Orient, one commentator said, which was liked more than 250times. It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". On 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.[16]. 1 episode, Midsomer Murders (2004) as Emily Hide. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. [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. "Her last one was a series about boxing. 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. Posted By: VOHK April 12, 2016 By Chan King-cheung - He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. 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. It was going to become part of China. In 2010, The Tablet named him as one of Britain's most influential Catholics. Dominic Patten / Deadline: David Zaslav Praises CNN Adding More GOP Voices; "Balance Strategy" Is "Important," Warner Bros Discovery Boss Says . But what if youre wrong? When Alice took her bow on the stage of Wyndham's Theatre on Monday night, both Laura and Kate were there to support her. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. On John Major's succession as Prime Minister in 1990, Patten became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Its been a very long nervous breakdown. All real Hong Kongers miss the Patten family very much. We should say so. The Hong Kong Diaries is published on 21 June by Allen Lane (30). Former Hong Kong Gov. [28], In February 2010, Patten was appointed President of Medical Aid for Palestinians, but he stepped down in June 2011. In May, Laura married Elton Charles, a florist from Paddington, whom she met seven years ago. Hes exactly what authoritarians dont like: feisty, tough, pastoral, funny. Zen reminds him, he says, of another brave, up-yours kind of person, Jonathan Mirsky, the former Observer correspondent who covered the Tiananmen Square massacre. Chris Patten is calling for the European Union to throw out its trade agreement with China. 04 Dec 1998. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. He is known for Tory! "They didn't have the choice. He might just have got through the modest . 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. 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. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC is a politician from Britain. I think, first of all, people talk about American exceptionalism, try Chinese exceptionalism. He returned to sit with the Conservative party in the House of Lords in September of that year. 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 . I listened to Sheila Hancock earlier talking about how one of the things about getting old is getting angrier. He lost his first parliamentary election (for Lambeth Central) in 1974 against the Labour Party candidate Marcus Lipton. In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. He was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong, serving between 1992 and 1997. 10 Jun 2008. degree from the University of Ulster. What the Russians are doing in Ukraine is wicked. Chris Patten. Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. 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. 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. 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Keir Starmer demands Covid inquiry reports by end of year, Police scour woodland in search for Constance Martens baby, Dozens killed after passenger and freight train collide in Greece, Hancock under fire over care home deaths and chaotic Covid response, London Bridge overcrowding: Give TfL control of Southeastern trains, Number of children in food poverty near double in a year to 4 million, Putins 274mil spy plane destroyed by drones at air base in Belarus, What is the Willow Project? The two posts combined had received more than 8,000 likes and 700 shares by Monday morning. "I'm very, very private," she said from her office at Cond Nast. 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. "She's very popular here, partly because she pulls her weight, partly because she's fun too. Kris Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist with an interest in local politics. He also introduced, and steered through Parliament, the major legislation that became the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Marisabina Russo, Russo, Marisabina 1950- Russo, Marisabina 1950- Personal Born May 1, 1950, in New York, NY; daughter of Michele Russo (a naval . I look at people like Jeremy Hunt though I fear it is going to ruin his leadership chances for me to say hes perfectly good and decent.. 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. After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. Tory! Contributions are moderated. 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 states baldly at one point a belief in an afterlife. If you require information from us, please use our Archive enquiry service. He is the co-chair of International Crisis Group, overseeing many international operations. After two weeks without a glimpse, Governor Chris Patten's teenage daughter, Laura, had been spotted in the beauty salon of the colony's 108-year-old Ladies' Recreation Club along with her. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. In 2003, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford. If you tick permission to publish your name will appear above your contribution on our website. They're now grown up and all doing fine. He also helmed the initiative of passing the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Concepts like that were mysterious to them. He made the case for negotiation rather than outright demands for independence. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than him. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Well, there are two elements to it. 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. [15] This report led to the disbanding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and establishment of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The Billionaire's Daughter Knows What You're Thinking. They bought the. Paperback. People said to him he couldnt talk to students about death, but he thought, why not? JACK HILL. (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. They have three children. [32] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor honoris causa by South East European University. Each email has a link to unsubscribe. 3 episodes, The Musketeers (2014) as Sister Hlne. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). 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. By clicking Sign up you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice. But the last two Ive done involved preaching on the days when the readings were about death and afterwards.. 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. Friday July 01 2022, 5.00pm, The Sunday Times. While he basically orchestrated the Conservative victory in the general election of 1992, he lost his own MP seat at Bath. Between February 2010 and June 2011, he served as the President of Medical Aid for Palestinians. Although supportive of Alice, they seem wary that her success will reignite interest in the family. : Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH PC 1944 512 - . Patten receiving the union flag after it was lowered for the last time at Government House - the governors official residence - during a farewell ceremony in Hong Kong in 1997. In the last three months, he says, partly as a result of Britains generous visa scheme, there have been 100,000-plus people from Hong Kong, teachers, medics, lawyers, leaving to come here and lots of other places as well. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary LL.D. As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory at the 1992 general election. 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. Try AbeBooks. Donations welcome PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN STILLWELL/PA. 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. Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944 in Ealing, London, England. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). The plan was to hand the lot over to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, but he felt he should get it in order. Something went wrong. At the United Nations, he met with China's foreign affairs minister, Tang . Bartis Edmond Hawley-Wall, Kyler Havard, Zealot23, Nich Smith, Matt Koltes, Chris Mulvihill . 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. Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. 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". He put out his memoir, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs, on September 29, 2005. Those are three values for the scrapbook. The most difficult question was a kid who said, Weve listened to you, Mr Patten. On 29 September 2005, he published his memoirs, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs. She's very charming, and can talk even the most unlikely person into appearing on TV.". However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. In 1979, he won his first parliamentary election to become an MP from Bath. 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. [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. Simply to denounce it seems crazy. 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. Open Daily: 10:30 - 18:00 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. After he left Hong Kong, Patten was part of the EU team that negotiated Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization in 2002. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. He turns off a muted symphony when I arrive. One time I. Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? [2][3], Her first major role after graduation was Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton in the West End in 2002.[4]. 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. Chris Pratt is being called "cringe and vile" for praising his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, for giving him a "healthy daughter" given that his son with ex Anna Faris, Jack, has suffered. We normally spend our time down the pub and avoid society events like the plague.". 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. What the Chinese have done in Xinjiang is wicked. 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. 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. Try AbeBooks. It was politically and morally difficult both for them and for us. [22] BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. It is hard to beat Dominic Grieves description of him as a moral vacuum., A few minutes later he phones me back. 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.. Many good people were driven out of the Conservative party by Brexit. In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. You can opt-out at any time by signing in to your account to manage your preferences. However the general public regarded him positively. . Two books, one by the ex-governor and another by professor Ho-fung Hung, offer insights into China's savage repression . 2023 Hong Kong news - Independent, non-profit, impartial. His father was a jazz drummer who later became a popular music publisher. Lenny rents the lake house for the 4th . Mirsky had many Chinese friends, but he denounced the Chinese Communist party as wicked. Patten believes both politicians and businessmen are too slow to say that. Photo by Fiona Hanson/PA I mean, it was a colonial project. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. 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.. 01 Dec 1990. 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. He laughs. 1,311 Chris Patten Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Creative Editorial Video Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 1,311 chris patten stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. His subsequent career has been a tour of duty of threatened institutions and imperial relics, the more grown-up version of Portillo on a train. This wasnt a colony like any other. 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. It is certainly important to use Rhodes money for more black African students. Patten lives in a large villa in Barnes in south-west London, next to the wooded common. In 2005, he became an appointed member of the British peerage. 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. But if it was difficult to convince them of that hope then, certainly after 2019 when Mr Lees police had been beating them over the head, tasering and teargassing them, it wasnt going to be any easier., A year ago, Patten was taking Bobby for a walk in Richmond Park when he bumped into two Chinese couples in their mid-20s. How do you know this? He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. We have been together for ages and he's wonderful. In 1999, Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was in New York representing the European Commission. Beijing had expected that the use of functional constituencies with limited electorates would be used to elect this council, however Patten extended the definition of functional constituencies and thus virtually every Hong Konger was able to vote for the so-called indirectly elected members (see Politics of Hong Kong) of the Legislative Council. In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. 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 was one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004. Delivery charges may apply. Tory! 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. Then chairman of the BBC Trust, fighting a rearguard action against cuts. His family lived in Greenford, and Chris Patten went to primary school there and then won a scholarship to the Catholic St Benedict's. 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. [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. 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. 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. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. 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. 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. Does he ever get mad, watching his lifes work, at home and abroad, unravel? 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. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. In May 2016, Patten said that the BBC has "lost some of its ambition" in its coverage of science, philosophy and history, and should "stretch" audiences more. His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. 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. Can you tell us more about this person? Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. In 1990, John Major made Patten Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party, with responsibility for organising the Conservative Party's re-election campaign for the upcoming general election. Thats just good history.. 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. 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. 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". A picture of the family of last governor Chris Patten posted by her daughter Alice (left, front) on her Facebook turns viral on social media. What will happen if the Communist party starts arresting us, sending people to prison? In answer, he went, he says, through all those quotes one uses, you know, Nelson Mandela, you cant lock up an idea, and so on. In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark. Showing Editorial results for chris patten. His family was Irish Catholic. 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. The page posted two old photos of Pattens family when they wereat the Government House. As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. Despite this, he enjoyed significant popularity in Hong Kong. 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. 1 episode, Jonathan Creek (2004) as Dawn/Gillian Bailey. It involved turning 850,000 words into 250,000. Please could you let us know your source of information. 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. [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. Lord Patten married Lavender Thornton in 1971. 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. In 2003, he was appointed the Chancellor of Oxford University. We would welcome any information that adds to and enhances our information and understanding about a particular portrait, sitter or artist. 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. 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. 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. He is portrayed by Noel Lester Rands.[30]. 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". He held this position within the Prodi Commission from 23 January 2000 until 22 November 2004. The EU and Moldova. If hes honest he cant see any other future for the territory than that it will have its freedoms and its attributes as an open society stripped away comprehensively. He has been an opponent of the movement at Oxford to tear down the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. Great Britain and the World. 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