(2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). It is certainly important to use Rhodes money for more black African students. Hardback. (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. We have been together for ages and he's wonderful. 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. He is the co-chair of International Crisis Group, overseeing many international operations. Friday July 01 2022, 5.00pm, The Sunday Times. [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. If Patten had been re-elected in 1992, sections of the media thought he would have been rewarded by appointment as Foreign Secretary, although in his autobiography John Major said that he would have made Patten Chancellor of the Exchequer. The most difficult question was a kid who said, Weve listened to you, Mr Patten. And yeah, I do get angry about things. 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. 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. 1 episode, Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016) as Katherine Parr. Chris Patten. The one he liked most was coined by an Episcopalian American missionary bishop who talked about being on the seashore with his friend. During his tenure, his government significantly expanded the territory's social welfare programmes and introduced democratic reforms to the electoral system.[2]. Read our, {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}. "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.". 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. After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. His family was Irish Catholic. After serving the organisation for three years, he resigned on May 6, 2014. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 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. After the speech in 2017, he says, there was a Q&A. Hobbies and other interests: Tennis, reading, browsing in bookshops. After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. 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. THE youngest daughter of Chris Patten is to star in a "lusty" BBC One drama about the life and loves of King Charles II. "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 Billionaire's Daughter Knows What You're Thinking. 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. 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. Nostalgia for theformer first family was also invokedby an incident in March last year. In 1999, Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was in New York representing the European Commission. Reading his 2017 memoir, First Confession, I was struck by how much his faith meant to him. 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. [citation needed]. In June 1983, he was made the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979, and served until he was unseated in 1992. Also Known As: Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, children: Alice Patten, Kate Patten, Laura Patten, See the events in life of Chris Patten in Chronological Order, (Chancellor of the University of Oxford (Since 2003)). CH PC Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes 1944512 Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 19921997 Tory! Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. I'm absolutely proud of them, they're all doing terrifically well. 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. People said to him he couldnt talk to students about death, but he thought, why not? 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?. They bought the. . East and West HB Spec Ed. Views expressed by opinion writers and advertisers are not necessarily shared by HKFP. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. 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. When they learn that their coach has died, they all return to New England with their families for the funeral. 1 episode, Downtown Abbey (2014) as Diana Clark. 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. Between 1998 and 1999, Chris Patten served as the Chairperson of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland. Try AbeBooks. 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. degree from the University of Bath. 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. 1 episode, New Tricks (2010) as Vicky Anderson. Miserable times he writes. Chris Patten trying to console his daughter Kate (left) on the evening of Hong Kong's handover as daughter Alice looks on. PHOTOGRAPH Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images The EU and Moldova. The book was a lockdown project. 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 October, he severely criticised the Hong Kong government for banning face masks. 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. Netizens were amazed by the apparent response from the English actress, however, as it is a fan page it isunlikely that it is managedby Patten herself. His job was to accumulate information on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley, Jr. 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. [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. 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. JACK HILL. 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. [22] BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten is published by Allen Lane . 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. After he left Hong Kong, Patten was part of the EU team that negotiated Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization in 2002. 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. 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. I listened to Sheila Hancock earlier talking about how one of the things about getting old is getting angrier. Simply to denounce it seems crazy. God Save The Queen. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. Do you have specialist knowledge or a particular interest about any aspect of the portrait or sitter or artist that you can share with us? 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. Please note that we cannot provide valuations. Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last governor of Hong Kong. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. 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". Between 1974 and 1979, he served as the director of the Conservative Research Department. I think, first of all, people talk about American exceptionalism, try Chinese exceptionalism. And him looking at me mystified. 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 episode, Jonathan Creek (2004) as Dawn/Gillian Bailey. 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. 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. See PA story ROYAL Patten. The good old days when HK was the Pearl of the Orient, one commentator said, which was liked more than 250times. 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. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. They had the mandate of heaven and I didnt even have the mandate of the voters of Bath. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. 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. 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. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. Patten said afterwards the Royal Pageant had not been the BBC's "finest hour" and admitted that "The tone was wrong."[21]. help his daughter bypass airport security rules, I can finally breathe: Some celebrate the end of Hong Kongs Covid mask rule, but most remain cautious, US politicians call for sanctions on Hong Kong prosecutors in 47 democrats case; Beijing slams hypocritic political show, In Pictures: Hong Kong bids farewell to Pennys Bay Covid facility with giant padlock and Auld Lang Syne, Hong Kong 47: Prosecutors to seek witness anonymity order as trial adjourned over defendants injury, Covid-19: Medic urges Hong Kong students to remove face masks to improve learning, immunity, Artist Vaevae Chan spent years building a cave in a Hong Kong high rise. Each email has a link to unsubscribe. 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. * Academics were turning out in full regalia for a procession and ceremony at . and at Queens' College, Cambridge. The 42-year-old musician's family confirmed to People magazine that Hannah Price, who was found dead in her home two . He made the case for negotiation rather than outright demands for independence. The City of M. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. (30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound The last . With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten 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? 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. It is hard to beat Dominic Grieves description of him as a moral vacuum., A few minutes later he phones me back. Patten was born in 1944 on the day the German army was driven out of Crimea. What the Chinese have done in Xinjiang is wicked. 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. He lost his first parliamentary election (for Lambeth Central) in 1974 against the Labour Party candidate Marcus Lipton. 01 Dec 1990. The National Portrait Gallery will NOT use your information to contact you or store for any other purpose than to investigate or display your contribution. His latest sermon outlined three possibilities. "Kate makes documentaries now," says her mother, who trained as a barrister, but currently works as a mediator for couples whose marriages have broken down. Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit opportunities. He put out his memoir, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs, on September 29, 2005. SHANGHAI -- Seventeen years after sailing on Britain's Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong, the tango dancer is on the move again. 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. 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. Western governments, Patten believes, have been wrong because of greed to give Xi Jinpings regime an easier ride than Vladimir Putins. Christopher Francis Patten was born on May 12 1944. by Jillian Edelsteinbromide fibre print, August 1990NPG x45377. In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. The gracious, book-lined sitting room gives out on to a generous garden. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. W e had one of those thunderbolt feelings when we saw our main home in Barnes . He put out his memoir, 'Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs', on September 29, 2005. 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