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. (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. * Academics were turning out in full regalia for a procession and ceremony at . His family was Irish Catholic. 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. 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. [citation needed]. 1 episode, Heroes and Villains (2008) as Joan. Something went wrong. Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong[1] When Alice took her bow on the stage of Wyndham's Theatre on Monday night, both Laura and Kate were there to support her. 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. Those are three values for the scrapbook. 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 was educated in modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a second-class honors degree in 1965. 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. [32] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor honoris causa by South East European University. If ever there as a contradiction in terms it is that. "[24] Patten said that Chinese company Huawei "is an agent of an unpleasant Chinese state."[25]. 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". "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 seems a completely reasonable man when discussing the Middle East or energy policy, but when the conversation shifts to Chechnya or Islamic extremism, Putin's eyes turn to those of a killer.". Christopher Patten. But life as just another face in the crowd never seemed likely for the Patten girls and now, Alice, the youngest of the three daughters, has just landed her first big acting role in Nicholas Wright's Vincent in Brixton, which opened on Monday in the West End. 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Patten was born in 1944 on the day the German army was driven out of Crimea. It involved turning 850,000 words into 250,000. 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. "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. 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. CH PC Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes 1944512 Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 19921997 Then chairman of the BBC Trust, fighting a rearguard action against cuts. "This is where I'm happiest: on stage," she says. Source for information on Patten, Chris 1944-: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary. Family (1) Spouse Lavender Thornton (1971 - present) (3 children) Trivia (4) Former Governor of Hong Kong. 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. Grand promises made about one country, two systems mixed with anecdotes about the Pattens three daughters and two dogs. And cross-checking against my wifes diary, to make sure I had the days right.. The Hong Kong Diaries is published on 21 June by Allen Lane (30). 1 episode, Merlin (20092010) as Ygraine. I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. A month after her father was elected Chancellor of Oxford University,. 04 Dec 1998. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. Please could you let us know your source of information. Im grateful for your support, I love you Hong Kong, a poston the Alice Patten Facebook page said. He went over and addressed the students who organised the protests against Hong Kongs security laws a couple of times, at the invitation of their informal leader, Joshua Wong. Indian film, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23. 1 episode, Downtown Abbey (2014) as Diana Clark. If you require information from us, please use our Archive enquiry service. Donations welcome 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. Try AbeBooks. Patten was Chancellor of Newcastle University from 1999 to 2009. A colleague who works with Kate at the BBC describes her as "serious and hard-working". John Majors bastards have long since taken over. While he basically orchestrated the Conservative victory in the general election of 1992, he lost his own MP seat at Bath. [23], In September 2020, he wrote that "Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping's dictatorship is certainly thuggish. Last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23, "Laura's straw hat puts Patten in the shade", "Old Patten family photos making some Hongkongers nostalgic", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Patten&oldid=1139788810, The Forsyte Saga (2002) as Imogen. He states baldly at one point a belief in an afterlife. On 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.[16]. 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. "We think the world of her, but as far as I'm concerned, there isn't really much to say. SHANGHAI -- Seventeen years after sailing on Britain's Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong, the tango dancer is on the move again. Chris Patten. 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"). It is certainly important to use Rhodes money for more black African students. 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. Nevertheless, she matured into an ordinary teenager, doing some modelling and going out with an Australian surfer called Alex while in Hong Kong. Skip to main content . 10 Jun 2008. He garnered widespread criticism for the controversial Community Charge (or so-called "Poll Tax"). Lenny rents the lake house for the 4th . He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003. Patten. 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). This wasnt a colony like any other. Western governments, Patten believes, have been wrong because of greed to give Xi Jinpings regime an easier ride than Vladimir Putins. "I was leaving my home, my friends, my school - my childhood - and I had only finished my A-levels the day before. Search over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated from the 16th Century to the present day. 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. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations. 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. "She's very popular here, partly because she pulls her weight, partly because she's fun too. The 42-year-old musician's family confirmed to People magazine that Hannah Price, who was found dead in her home two . He was one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. 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. 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. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. And him looking at me mystified. If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. If they inspire you please support our work. But what if youre wrong? I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. The 1996 Hong Kong parody film Bodyguards of the Last Governor, presents 'Christ Pattern' as the Governor of Hong Kong. However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. East and West. 3 episodes, The Musketeers (2014) as Sister Hlne. Kris is HKFP's Editorial Director. He has a BSSc in Sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A practising Roman Catholic, he organized Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. What the Chinese have done in Xinjiang is wicked. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). Kris Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist with an interest in local politics. Theyre watching a ship under full sail heading over the horizon at dusk. 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 . 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. [17], Patten was the biggest proponent in the commission for Turkey's accession to the European Union. Two books, one by the ex-governor and another by professor Ho-fung Hung, offer insights into China's savage repression . 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.. He is the 28th and final Governor of Hong Kong from 19 July 1992 until the end of British administration over the territory on 30 June 1997. Patten lives in a large villa in Barnes in south-west London, next to the wooded common. He described the government as shameful and seedy. Chris Patten is calling for the European Union to throw out its trade agreement with China. Hardback. It's just that after those heady years in the spotlight, her sisters would seem to crave the exact opposite. 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. Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of . When MP for Bath (1979-92) he served as Minister for Overseas Development, Secretary of State for the Environment and Chairman of the Conservative Party. There is a 1930s village atmosphere, which bankers and lawyers now pay 5m to inhabit. 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.. 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. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. Chris Patten, who led Britain's last government in Hong Kong before the Asian financial hub was returned to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997, said it was "heartbreaking" to see its transformation. Do you think it was also their belief that the British government had deluded itself about its own purpose? Reading his 2017 memoir, First Confession, I was struck by how much his faith meant to him. Connor Patten Basketball. 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. After he left Hong Kong, Patten was part of the EU team that negotiated Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization in 2002. He held the parliamentary seat until 1992. 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 been a very long nervous breakdown. Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. He has been an opponent of the movement at Oxford to tear down the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. 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. Patten also played the role of Vicky Anderson, in an episode of New Tricks, the daughter of an English-born Hong Kong businessman, Douglas Anderson, who had been involved in questionable building deals in Hong Kong, shortly before the end of British rule in 1997.[5]. Blonde and elfin, Alice - who was nicknamed "Little Princess" by her sisters - found it perhaps hardest of all to adjust to returning to Britain. 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. 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. He grew up in West London and attended a Catholic primary school, Our Lady of the Visitation, in Greenford, and later the independent St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London. Verden, Alexander Griffiths, SnipsGTI, Brian Sousa, bilbens baggo, Stuart, IbKelek, Galygious, Andrew Patton, Nicole Patten, Clementine . Tue 28th June 2022. Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory at the 1992 general election. Patten was not a career diplomat, unlike the previous governors. Search instead in Creative? Bartis Edmond Hawley-Wall, Kyler Havard, Zealot23, Nich Smith, Matt Koltes, Chris Mulvihill . 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 . Commentaries Videos & Podcasts Author's Comments Sort by: Latest Popular Show: All On Point However the general public regarded him positively. 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. Press release from the City of Menifee: MENIFEE - Menifee's street projects and construction updates are getting an upgrade! Under a painted portrait of Patten and his wife of 51 years are photographs of their eight grandchildren. See PA story ROYAL Patten. The first was a literalist one based on a reading by Ronald Knox, who was chaplain to Catholic students at Oxford. 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. The Legislative Council became a fully elected legislature for the first time in 1995 and extensively expanded its functions and organisations throughout the last years of colonial rule.[10]. 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. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. Now 28, she is a television producer at the BBC, making programmes for BBC Choice. During his tenure, his government significantly expanded the territory's social welfare programmes and introduced democratic reforms to the electoral system.[2]. In October 2009, Patten was Chief Guest at The Doon School, a boarding school in Dehradun, India, which is a member of the United Kingdom's Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. 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". Open Daily: 10:30 - 18:00 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. In 2004, she appeared in Jonathan Creek as Gillian Bailey. He is also the one of only two living former governors of Hong Kong with Sir David Wilson. In May, Laura married Elton Charles, a florist from Paddington, whom she met seven years ago. 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). . This account already exists. [27], Patten is a Catholic and oversaw Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. I think, first of all, people talk about American exceptionalism, try Chinese exceptionalism. He is portrayed by Noel Lester Rands.[30]. He followed that up with the job of which he is most proud establishing a new, non-sectarian police force in Northern Ireland, as part of the Good Friday agreement. 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. Tory! In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. "She travelled to cities such as San Francisco for Rock Shrines," he says. Part of the reason that he despairs in watching our own democratic norms under threat proroguing parliament, undermining the independence of the judiciary and the neutrality of the civil service, threatening to ignore treaties in Northern Ireland is that he knows it makes it harder to criticise other regimes. 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. "We are very, very happy together," she says. Hobbies and other interests: Tennis, reading, browsing in bookshops. We would welcome any information that adds to and enhances our information and understanding about a particular portrait, sitter or artist. [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!!!. We normally spend our time down the pub and avoid society events like the plague.". Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( Chinese: ; [1] born 12 May 1944) is a British politician. Nostalgia for theformer first family was also invokedby an incident in March last year. During his time in Hong Kong, Patten and his government considerably increased the reach of the territory's social welfare programmes and brought about democratic reforms to the electoral system. As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. | Contact Us | Newsletter | Annual & Transparency Report. Showing Editorial results for chris patten. Photo by Fiona Hanson/PA Laura patten Stock Photos and Images. The Gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. If you have information to share please complete the form below. After his loss in 1992, Patten declined the offer of a new seat and assumed the position of the 28th Governor of Hong Kong. Before that she was doing a series called Rock Shrines, about dead pop stars and their fans. Cut to June 30 1997, and his daughters' faces, like his wife's, were "crumpled with emotion and streaked with tears". I occasionally get asked to preach in college chapels. "[12] This marked the end of British rule in Hong Kong. Jun 2020 - Present2 years 9 months. 1 episode, Midsomer Murders (2004) as Emily Hide. Many good people were driven out of the Conservative party by Brexit. Please Like other favourites! The daughters of Chris Patten, (l to r) Laura, Kate and Alice, say a tearful goodbye to Hong Kong, from on board the Royal yacht Britannia. 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. Patten married Lavender Thornton, a barrister, on 11 September 1971. Its an aspect of a mature patriotism to look at both the good bit and the bad bits. His father was a jazz drummer who later became a popular music publisher. 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. 1979 . 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. After serving the organisation for three years, he resigned on May 6, 2014. Chris Patten. He turns off a muted symphony when I arrive. 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. Which he thought was something which was valuable to South Africa. I'm absolutely proud of them, they're all doing terrifically well. Please ensure your comments are relevant and appropriate. Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. In June 1983, he was made the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office. I mean, it was a colonial project. . On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. In 2005, he became an appointed member of the British peerage. 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. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. It was going to become part of China. Photo: AFP/WTN Chris has an amazing sense of humour. 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. The one he liked most was coined by an Episcopalian American missionary bishop who talked about being on the seashore with his friend. 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. He has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2005. PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN STILLWELL/PA. St Mary's Barnes, United Kingdom, SW13 9HL. It's 25 years since Hong Kong was handed back to China in June 1997. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) has become a single womanizer. It wasnot the first time Hong Kong netizens posted photos of Pattens family, after they left the city in 1997. The page posted two old photos of Pattens family when they wereat the Government House. Alice Patten. 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. In the latest swing by CNN chief Chris Licht to rebrand the cable newser, Maher's appearance gave a bit of a preview of plans for the 9 PM ET slot, diverting from counter programming to . His background is decidedly unstarry: his mother is a housewife from Dominica, his father worked as a warehouseman. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC is a politician from Britain. Friday July 01 2022, 5.00pm, The Sunday Times. 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. n Hong Kong, they were known as the Three Graces. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. What the Russians are doing in Ukraine is wicked. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. 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