"She's very popular here, partly because she pulls her weight, partly because she's fun too. The Hong Kong Diaries is published on 21 June by Allen Lane (30). The page posted two old photos of Pattens family when they wereat the Government House. After he left Hong Kong, Patten was part of the EU team that negotiated Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization in 2002. Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Raised in west London, Patten studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. East and West HB Spec Ed. Patten was not a career diplomat, unlike the previous governors. 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.. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of . Alice Patten. 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". [26] They have three daughters, including the actress Alice Patten. Grand promises made about one country, two systems mixed with anecdotes about the Pattens three daughters and two dogs. Patten turned down offers of a new post and instead, in July 1992, he became the 28th and the last governor of Hong Kong until its transfer of sovereignty to China on 30 June 1997. "She travelled to cities such as San Francisco for Rock Shrines," he says. He has been an opponent of the movement at Oxford to tear down the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. At the United Nations, he met with China's foreign affairs minister, Tang . Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (Chinese: ; 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. 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. On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. Despite this, he enjoyed significant popularity in Hong Kong. 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. If you tick permission to publish your name will appear above your contribution on our website. 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. 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. Dominic Patten / Deadline: David Zaslav Praises CNN Adding More GOP Voices; "Balance Strategy" Is "Important," Warner Bros Discovery Boss Says . I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. His work has been featured in Washington Post, Public Radio International, Hong Kong Economic Times and others. Millions of premium Stock photos and illustrations created by leading commercial photographers, world-famous Museums, Historical Archives and Private Collections. During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. Posted By: VOHK April 12, 2016 By Chan King-cheung - His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. It's that kind of awful TV.". 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. 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. 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired. His family was Irish Catholic. 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". 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. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. His background is decidedly unstarry: his mother is a housewife from Dominica, his father worked as a warehouseman. Patten's guest was entranced by a picture of his children on his desk and asked: "How come ugly father produce such beautiful daughters?" He served a full five-year term before his ennoblement. Its funny you should say that. Showing Editorial results for chris patten. +44(0)20 7306 0055, Admission free. Now 28, she is a television producer at the BBC, making programmes for BBC Choice. The Black Watch [the last British military unit to leave] werent going to hold Hong Kong against the Peoples Liberation Army. Views expressed by opinion writers and advertisers are not necessarily shared by HKFP. [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. Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. He put out his memoir, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs, on September 29, 2005. Connor Patten Basketball. What the Chinese have done in Xinjiang is wicked. Indian film, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23. In November 2016 Patten was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour, and was presented with the award by the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom Sylvie Bermann at Kensington Palace Gardens. Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. degree from the University of Ulster. Does he ever get mad, watching his lifes work, at home and abroad, unravel? "[24] Patten said that Chinese company Huawei "is an agent of an unpleasant Chinese state."[25]. Had 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. Tue 28th June 2022. 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 . Search instead in Creative? 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. 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.She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). Christopher Francis Patten Visitor Chancellor of the University 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. 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. But after the official handing over ceremony was complete, and they had been poured stiff gins by Prince Charles aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia, the Patten family faced a rather ignominious return to a semi-detached Victorian house in Barnes. 1 episode, Jonathan Creek (2004) as Dawn/Gillian Bailey. degree from the University of Trinity College, Toronto and an honorary D.Litt. 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. On John Major's succession as Prime Minister in 1990, Patten became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. 3 episodes, The Musketeers (2014) as Sister Hlne. Chris Patten I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. SHANGHAI -- Seventeen years after sailing on Britain's Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong, the tango dancer is on the move again. I take as my baseline what Nelson Mandela said about the Rhodes Trust, he says. St Mary's Barnes, United Kingdom, SW13 9HL. [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. 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. Nevertheless, she matured into an ordinary teenager, doing some modelling and going out with an Australian surfer called Alex while in Hong Kong. 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. God Save The Queen. 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. 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. 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