Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. "She's very popular here, partly because she pulls her weight, partly because she's fun too. Chris Patten. Something went wrong. After the speech in 2017, he says, there was a Q&A. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of . 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. 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.. Source for information on Patten, Chris 1944-: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary. Concepts like that were mysterious to them. Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. 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. I mean, it was a colonial project. Receiving a Coolidge travelling scholarship, he went to US, where he was part of the campaign of then-Republican New York Mayor John Lindsay. What the Chinese have done in Xinjiang is wicked. Chris Patten at his home in Barnes. Tv film Basanti (2006) as Sue McKinley. We're completely supportive of her and backing her 110 per cent. Patten was noted to be in tears throughout the day, notably after his speech at Tamar. The Gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Nostalgia for theformer first family was also invokedby an incident in March last year. He was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong, serving between 1992 and 1997. [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. There is an inevitable sentimental or nostalgic strain to Pattens diaries of 25 years ago, as he departed on the royal yacht. PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN STILLWELL/PA. [2][3], Her first major role after graduation was Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton in the West End in 2002.[4]. He was European Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004 and Chairman of the BBC Trust from 2011 to 2014. At which point, the young mans lovely girlfriend just burst into tears. Cut to June 30 1997, and his daughters' faces, like his wife's, were "crumpled with emotion and streaked with tears". "This is where I'm happiest: on stage," she says. Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. 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. Patten's defeat was attributed to factors such as the Poll Tax.[6]. He described the government as shameful and seedy. But what if youre wrong? Grand promises made about one country, two systems mixed with anecdotes about the Pattens three daughters and two dogs. Bartis Edmond Hawley-Wall, Kyler Havard, Zealot23, Nich Smith, Matt Koltes, Chris Mulvihill . And cross-checking against my wifes diary, to make sure I had the days right.. The book was a lockdown project. He was one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004. A month after her father was elected Chancellor of Oxford University,. 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. Tory! PHOTOGRAPH Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. 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. Please note that we cannot provide valuations. Donations welcome Now 28, she is a television producer at the BBC, making programmes for BBC Choice. Its too depressing to think about, Patten says. 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. Former Hong Kong Gov. "I just find it intensely difficult. 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. 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. Chris Patten. Chris Patten. 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. (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. 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). You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Support HKFP | Code of Ethics | Error/typo? In 2003, he was appointed the Chancellor of Oxford University. Thats just good history.. Chris Patten: We have a populist government that is fatally not popular, few minutes after the result of Mondays confidence vote in the prime minister was announced, I spoke to. 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. 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. Press release from the City of Menifee: MENIFEE - Menifee's street projects and construction updates are getting an upgrade! [27], Patten is a Catholic and oversaw Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. Great Britain and the World. According to information from WikiLeaks, Patten was in Moscow in April 2004 and had concluded EURussia ministerial consultations in Brussels. [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. And him looking at me mystified. Reading it, you cant help but reflect on an essential loss of rigour in Britains dealings with the world; contrast the likes of Douglas Hurd and Malcolm Rifkind as foreign secretaries with the incumbent, Liz Truss. At the United Nations, he met with China's foreign affairs minister, Tang . In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. 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. After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. 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Chris Patten East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia Hardcover - September 14, 1998 by Christopher Patten (Author) 21 ratings Hardcover $22.11 45 Used from $1.66 5 New from $18.85 2 Collectible from $17.00 Paperback $16.99 12 Used from $2.93 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. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. 1 episode, Downtown Abbey (2014) as Diana Clark. He fears the results are being played out in Hong Kong. Can you tell us more about this person? It is certainly important to use Rhodes money for more black African students. The most depressing thing is Ive been watching interviews with ministers this evening, he said, and the titles alone are so depressing. 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. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. Enter your password to log in. It was politically and morally difficult both for them and for us. Marisabina Russo, Russo, Marisabina 1950- Russo, Marisabina 1950- Personal Born May 1, 1950, in New York, NY; daughter of Michele Russo (a naval . Tory! He turns off a muted symphony when I arrive. 1 episode, Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016) as Katherine Parr. He lost his first parliamentary election (for Lambeth Central) in 1974 against the Labour Party candidate Marcus Lipton. Hardback. 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. 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. 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) Christopher Patten. Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. 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.. 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. Search instead in Creative? Hong Kong's legacy from Chris Patten's Diaries to City on the Edge. Do you think it was also their belief that the British government had deluded itself about its own purpose? 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. Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit opportunities. As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. I have trained 5 . Hardback. 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?. His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. Before relinquishing the colonial administration to China in 1997, he was fighting daily battles, mostly verbal, with . 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". He might just have got through the modest . The Black Watch [the last British military unit to leave] werent going to hold Hong Kong against the Peoples Liberation Army. "Her last one was a series about boxing. n Hong Kong, they were known as the Three Graces. Lord Patten said China . The first was a literalist one based on a reading by Ronald Knox, who was chaplain to Catholic students at Oxford. [citation needed], After graduating with a second-class honours degree in 1965 and winning a Coolidge travelling scholarship to the US,[4] Patten worked for the campaign of then-Republican New York Mayor John Lindsay, where he reported on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley Jr.[5] He worked for the Conservative Party from 1966, first as desk officer and then director (from 1974 to 1979) of the Conservative Research Department. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? We werent preparing it for independence. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. On John Major's succession as Prime Minister in 1990, Patten became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. There she goes, one says, to which the other, thinking about mortality, replies: Yes but therell be others who will say, Here she comes. Though Patten likes that idea, the third possibility strikes him as most understandable: that we live on in people remembering our smiles. 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. His father was a jazz drummer who later became a popular music publisher. I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. Christopher Francis Patten Visitor Chancellor of the University Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC is a politician from Britain. degree from the University of Ulster. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) has become a single womanizer. A year later, he became Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 2006, she appeared in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti as Sue McKinley, a young British woman who comes to India to make a documentary film about the British rule in the Indian subcontinent. Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). "We are very, very happy together," she says. 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 . 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. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. The 1996 Hong Kong parody film Bodyguards of the Last Governor, presents 'Christ Pattern' as the Governor of Hong Kong. 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. Does he ever get mad, watching his lifes work, at home and abroad, unravel? 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. 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. Her father Leung Chun-ying called an ambulance to the Government House and told reporters that Chai-yan was under a lot of pressure as a young girl, that she has been seeking medical help. degree from the University of Bath. He was educated in modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a second-class honors degree in 1965. [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. Patten was not a career diplomat, unlike the previous governors. 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 . Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. 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. 1 episode, Vincent In Brixton (2003) as Eugenie Loyer, Rang De Eugenie Loyer. Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. During his tenure, his government significantly expanded the territory's social welfare programmes and introduced democratic reforms to the electoral system.[2]. After serving the organisation for three years, he resigned on May 6, 2014. On 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.[16]. In 2003, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford. She threatened to leave home forever on social media. A caption was changed to correct a date: Chris Patten received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1998; not 1989. Between 1974 and 1979, he served as the director of the Conservative Research Department. We dont have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party. Chris Patten photographed at his home in London. Friday July 01 2022, 5.00pm, The Sunday Times. 04 Dec 1998. 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. Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post: Trump may be . To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. "[24] Patten said that Chinese company Huawei "is an agent of an unpleasant Chinese state."[25]. Patten was the Conservative Party candidate for Lambeth Central at the February 1974 general election, but lost to the Labour Party candidate, Marcus Lipton. 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]. 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. 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. 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. JACK HILL. People said to him he couldnt talk to students about death, but he thought, why not? This wasnt a colony like any other. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. I listened to Sheila Hancock earlier talking about how one of the things about getting old is getting angrier. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary LL.D. by Jillian Edelsteinbromide fibre print, August 1990NPG x45377. And they hate it when we do.. Anyway on we go, in my case to Strasbourg and treason the European parliament. Even for old Tories, hope springs eternal. 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. 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? "I'm very, very private," she said from her office at Cond Nast. Hong Kong news Independent, impartial, non-profit. "We think the world of her, but as far as I'm concerned, there isn't really much to say. He has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2005. For people of my age, it was a bit like being born just after the Congress of Vienna [of 1814], to then live through a period of stability and growing prosperity, longevity, better health, in which there were a number of givens: Europe or welfare democracy or that thing that Peter Hennessy writes about, leaders who, in the absence of a written constitution, could be trusted to do the right thing.. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. 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. 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. And I dont see what pulls the party together again. His family was Irish Catholic. 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". In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. 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. His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. If you have information to share please complete the form below. And nobody should ever see the words Nadine Dorries and culture secretary in the same sentence.. Showing Editorial results for chris patten. 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". 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. [9] Patten's approval rating in Hong Kong in April 1992 was 53% and ended his tenure with an approval rating of 59.7%.[4]. 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). In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark. The City of M. [22] BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. 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