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. 2023 Hong Kong news - Independent, non-profit, impartial. We would welcome any information that adds to and enhances our information and understanding about a particular portrait, sitter or artist. 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 . I train athletes looking for upgrades to their shooting, ball handling, court awareness, and post play skills. At the United Nations, he met with China's foreign affairs minister, Tang . He has been an opponent of the movement at Oxford to tear down the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. It wasnot the first time Hong Kong netizens posted photos of Pattens family, after they left the city in 1997. 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. If ever there as a contradiction in terms it is that. 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. Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit opportunities. His father was a jazz drummer who later became a popular music publisher. Those are three values for the scrapbook. Lenny rents the lake house for the 4th . He lost his first parliamentary election (for Lambeth Central) in 1974 against the Labour Party candidate Marcus Lipton. Lord Patten said China . 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. Why was it that Chris Pattens daughters did not get intotrouble living in Government House for all those years, yetsuch troubles have cometo Ms Leung sinceshe moved in? a user questioned on popular HKGolden forum. Kris Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist with an interest in local politics. In 1966, Chris Patten became involved with the Conservative Party. During his tenure, his government significantly expanded the territory's social welfare programmes and introduced democratic reforms to the electoral system.[2]. Lavender doesnt entirely approve; I think she fears it makes me a tad sanctimonious. A year later, he became Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Christopher Francis Patten was born on May 12 1944. Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last governor of Hong Kong. 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. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. Angela Wintle. [citation needed]. Patten was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! On May 1, 2011, following the advice from the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government led by Prime Minister David Cameron, the Queen-in-Council made him the Chairman of BBC Trust. Patten was noted to be in tears throughout the day, notably after his speech at Tamar. "I'm the deputy beauty editor at Tatler, I'm very happy here, and that's it really. It is certainly important to use Rhodes money for more black African students. He was the architect of Major's 1992 election victory, built on a belief that, post-Thatcher, the party must be "tolerant,. [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!!!. . He is known for Tory! Its too depressing to think about, Patten says. 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. 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. 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. 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. Before that, he was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. 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". We werent preparing it for independence. His latest sermon outlined three possibilities. He is the co-chair of International Crisis Group, overseeing many international operations. Patten said afterwards the Royal Pageant had not been the BBC's "finest hour" and admitted that "The tone was wrong."[21]. He was also the last governor of the colony, as it was transferred to Chinese control on June 30, 1997. It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". Alice Patten. By ticking permission to publish you are indicating your agreement for your contribution to be shown on this collection item page. 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. Miserable times he writes. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). It was politically and morally difficult both for them and for us. The tone sometimes threatens to override his reservations about Britains own shaming colonial history that led to the acquisition of the rocks in the first place. I'm absolutely proud of them, they're all doing terrifically well. 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. 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. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. [2][3], Her first major role after graduation was Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton in the West End in 2002.[4]. 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. He is portrayed by Noel Lester Rands.[30]. During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. He made the case for negotiation rather than outright demands for independence. On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. There is an inevitable sentimental or nostalgic strain to Pattens diaries of 25 years ago, as he departed on the royal yacht. I have trained 5 . For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. 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. The City of M. 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. Between 1974 and 1979, he served as the director of the Conservative Research Department. Please ensure your comments are relevant and appropriate. [28], In February 2010, Patten was appointed President of Medical Aid for Palestinians, but he stepped down in June 2011. 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. 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. "[12] This marked the end of British rule in Hong Kong. degree from the University of Bath. Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post: Trump may be . However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. W e had one of those thunderbolt feelings when we saw our main home in Barnes . 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. (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). 1 episode, Heroes and Villains (2008) as Joan. (Photo by David Montgomery/Getty Images) PURCHASE A LICENSE Get personalized pricing by telling us when, where, and how you want to use this asset. And nobody should ever see the words Nadine Dorries and culture secretary in the same sentence.. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations. Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). 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. She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). [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. How do you know this? Cut to June 30 1997, and his daughters' faces, like his wife's, were "crumpled with emotion and streaked with tears". Enter your password to log in. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. In 1990, he was appointed the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party. "I cried all day," she says of her very public departure. 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 the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong, serving between 1992 and 1997. Your contributions must be polite and with no intention of causing trouble. 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. Visiting him is like stepping into a lost Conservative hinterland. 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! 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. "I thought there was a prospect that (China) would keep its word, and I'm sorry that it hasn't," he said in London. The page posted two old photos of Pattens family when they wereat the Government House. His work has been featured in Washington Post, Public Radio International, Hong Kong Economic Times and others. 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. 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. 04 Dec 1998. 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. 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. He kept a daily journal of his historic years in Hong Kong, partly on tape recordings. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations with other readers. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. A caption was changed to correct a date: Chris Patten received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1998; not 1989. East and West HB Spec Ed. Please could you let us know your source of information. They had the mandate of heaven and I didnt even have the mandate of the voters of Bath. 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. Marisabina Russo, Russo, Marisabina 1950- Russo, Marisabina 1950- Personal Born May 1, 1950, in New York, NY; daughter of Michele Russo (a naval . A month after her father was elected Chancellor of Oxford University,. 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. Spotted an error, information that is missing (a sitters life dates, occupation or family relationships, or a date of portrait for example) or do you know anything that we don't know? He was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 until 1997, Chairman for the Independent Commission on Policing after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 . Grand promises made about one country, two systems mixed with anecdotes about the Pattens three daughters and two dogs. Receiving a Coolidge travelling scholarship, he went to US, where he was part of the campaign of then-Republican New York Mayor John Lindsay. Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) has become a single womanizer. 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. [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. Great Britain and the World. Donations welcome Please note that we cannot provide valuations. "They didn't have the choice. Chris Patten at his home in Barnes. Prices start at 6 for unframed prints, 25 for framed prints. . Patten bemoaned the fact that much of the corporation's high-brow programming had been moved to BBC Four, the digital channel, and given low budgets that meant shows were "sometimes made with glue and string". 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?. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. And I dont see what pulls the party together again. Former Hong Kong Gov. Concepts like that were mysterious to them. "I'm very, very private," she said from her office at Cond Nast. 26 Sep 2005. Open Daily: 10:30 - 18:00 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 . [32] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor honoris causa by South East European University. He was educated in modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a second-class honors degree in 1965. Showing Editorial results for chris patten. You can opt-out at any time by signing in to your account to manage your preferences. Chris Daughtry 's family has confirmed his stepdaughter's cause of death. Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. She's very charming, and can talk even the most unlikely person into appearing on TV.". * Academics were turning out in full regalia for a procession and ceremony at . : Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH PC 1944 512 - . However the general public regarded him positively. 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. 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. Try AbeBooks. Source for information on Patten, Chris 1944-: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary. Tory! Commentaries Videos & Podcasts Author's Comments Sort by: Latest Popular Show: All On Point The EU and Moldova. As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory at the 1992 general election. 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. After his loss in 1992, Patten declined the offer of a new seat and assumed the position of the 28th Governor of Hong Kong. In 2003, he was appointed the Chancellor of Oxford University. 07 Sep 1998. . Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. 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. PHOTOGRAPH Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images The daughter of the last British governor of Hong Kong has receiveda recent outpouring of affection from Hongkongers, following an incident in whichthe Chief Executive allegedly used his privilegestohelp his daughter bypass airport security rules. In 2008, she played Thea in Hedda, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, at London's Gate Theatre and, in 2009, she guest-starred as Arthur's mother Ygraine in the BBC fantasy drama series Merlin. 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. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART Patten's actions were strongly criticised by the pro-Beijing political parties of Hong Kong. He was one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004. Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. 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. They bought the. Chris Patten. "We think the world of her, but as far as I'm concerned, there isn't really much to say. 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. Tory! 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. 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. On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. Posted By: VOHK April 12, 2016 By Chan King-cheung - He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. Chris Patten, with wife Lavender and daughters Alice and Laura, is greeted by the Chief Secretary, Sir David Ford, on arrival in Hong Kong on 9 July 1992 Much of the time during the summer is. People said to him he couldnt talk to students about death, but he thought, why not? She threatened to leave home forever on social media. The most depressing thing is Ive been watching interviews with ministers this evening, he said, and the titles alone are so depressing. In 1989, he was promoted to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for the Environment and became responsible for the unpopular Community Charge (or so-called "Poll Tax"). Chris Patten trying to console his daughter Kate (left) on the evening of Hong Kong's handover as daughter Alice looks on. 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 . Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last colonial governor, departed from the Government House in Hong Kong on the 1 st July 1997, and made the historic and iconic trip back to the HMY Britannia. I'll probably go to previews of her play, but I won't tell her I'm there to check she's all right, I'll probably end up going lots of times.". Family (1) Spouse Lavender Thornton (1971 - present) (3 children) Trivia (4) Former Governor of Hong Kong. He was appointed Secretary of State for the Environment by Margaret Thatcher in 1989 as part of her third ministry, becoming responsible for implementation of the unpopular poll tax. 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. A Lancashire native, Patten grew up in London and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. 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". 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. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. [14], From 1998 to 1999, he chaired the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, better known as the Patten Commission, which had been established in 1998 as part of the Belfast Agreement. 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