Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. He was one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004. It wasnot the first time Hong Kong netizens posted photos of Pattens family, after they left the city in 1997. [26] They have three daughters, including the actress Alice 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. The most difficult question was a kid who said, Weve listened to you, Mr Patten. 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 God Save The Queen. And him looking at me mystified. 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. The good old days when HK was the Pearl of the Orient, one commentator said, which was liked more than 250times. And I just think Johnson is terribly wrong. Commentaries Videos & Podcasts Author's Comments Sort by: Latest Popular Show: All On Point Laura patten Stock Photos and Images. Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944 in Ealing, London, England. In 2010, The Tablet named him as one of Britain's most influential Catholics. Kris Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist with an interest in local politics. His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. He has been married to Lavender Thornton since 1971. You can opt-out at any time by signing in to your account to manage your preferences. It was politically and morally difficult both for them and for us. I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. This account already exists. 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. Beijing had expected that the use of functional constituencies with limited electorates would be used to elect this council, however Patten extended the definition of functional constituencies and thus virtually every Hong Konger was able to vote for the so-called indirectly elected members (see Politics of Hong Kong) of the Legislative Council. Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. He was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong, serving between 1992 and 1997. 1979 . Hardback. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. Views expressed by opinion writers and advertisers are not necessarily shared by HKFP. [15] This report led to the disbanding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and establishment of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory at the 1992 general election. 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. 2023 Hong Kong news - Independent, non-profit, impartial. Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit opportunities. 1 episode, Heroes and Villains (2008) as Joan. 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. Loree Seitz / The Wrap: David Zaslav Signals Confidence in CNN Chief Chris Licht: . If ever there as a contradiction in terms it is that. And yeah, I do get angry about things. [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. If you have information to share please complete the form below. Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. . Unlike most previous Hong Kong governors, he was not a career diplomat from the UK Foreign Office although he was not the first former MP to become a governor of Hong Kong. Tony Blair suggested that it made the road to democracy [in China] unstoppable. He is the co-chair of International Crisis Group, overseeing many international operations. He turns off a muted symphony when I arrive. The former Conservative party chairman and current rebellious Tory peer was dismayed to see the Johnson cult still hanging on. 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. Its too depressing to think about, Patten says. [20], As Chairman of the BBC Trust, Patten joined the Prince of Wales and other members of the royal family in the royal box for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert. Her two elder sisters, Laura and Kate, however, are less keen to recapture their moment in the spotlight. Does he ever get mad, watching his lifes work, at home and abroad, unravel? [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. Alice Patten is a English actress appeared in film Rang De Basanti opposite Aamir Khan.The British actress is daughter of politician Chris Patten, she played character Sue who came to India to make a documentary film about the British rule. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of . 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. Can you tell us more about this person? We dont have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party. Chris Patten photographed at his home in London. Its been a very long nervous breakdown. 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. Try AbeBooks. Developer Chris Patten has submitted new plans to build a four-story apartment complex at the corner of Glen and Bay streets, directly across from City Park. How Covid helped China tighten its hold on Hong Kong, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. In the 1998 New Year Honours, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Companion of Honour (CH).[31]. Jun 2020 - Present2 years 9 months. As the last Governor of Hong Kong, he supervised the final years of British governance in the colony and readied it for the transition to Chinese control in 1997. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chris_Patten_-2008-10-31-.jpg, https://flickr.com/photos/ukinfrance/11115110006, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3MtANpVq6s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkYBUBJgws. Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post: Trump may be . Nostalgia for theformer first family was also invokedby an incident in March last year. Hardback. 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. Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last Governor of Hong Kong.She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). 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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The one he liked most was coined by an Episcopalian American missionary bishop who talked about being on the seashore with his friend. But the debate goes on.. | Contact Us | Newsletter | Annual & Transparency Report. In 2019, amidst the protests in Hong Kong, Patten spoke out in support of the protesters. He was also the last governor of the colony, as it was transferred to Chinese control on June 30, 1997. We werent preparing it for independence. 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. Support HKFP | Code of Ethics | Error/typo? [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. 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? Lord Patten married Lavender Thornton in 1971. Source for information on Patten, Chris 1944-: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary. 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. 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. He is known for Tory! He might just have got through the modest . He put out his memoir, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs, on September 29, 2005. 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, he became an appointed member of the British peerage. "I don't think they ever wanted to be in the limelight, these decisions are not necessarily there to be made - it's a question of how one stays out of the limelight, rather than wanting to be in it," Mrs Patten said from the family holiday home in France. Hong Kong's legacy from Chris Patten's Diaries to City on the Edge. Wednesday night, musician Chris Daughtry and his wife shared the cause of their daughter's sudden death on Nov. 12, 2021. Tory! He is also the one of only two living former governors of Hong Kong with Sir David Wilson. 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. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. The two posts combined had received more than 8,000 likes and 700 shares by Monday morning. Patten was born in 1944 on the day the German army was driven out of Crimea. 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 lives in a large villa in Barnes in south-west London, next to the wooded common. "This is where I'm happiest: on stage," she says. Try AbeBooks. He was born into an Irish Catholic family on his paternal side. Skip to main content . Hes exactly what authoritarians dont like: feisty, tough, pastoral, funny. Zen reminds him, he says, of another brave, up-yours kind of person, Jonathan Mirsky, the former Observer correspondent who covered the Tiananmen Square massacre. 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. 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. Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was no stranger in picking fights with China. They bought the Daily Express in the days when it was a decent newspaper., His vocation was shaped more by the timing of his birth, which came with tragedy and hope built in. Do you think that they always saw through that? Consider its policies in Xinjiang. [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]. You can buy a print of most illustrated portraits. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled. 01 Dec 1990. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). 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. She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. 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?. She's very charming, and can talk even the most unlikely person into appearing on TV.". 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. Patten submitted his letter of resignation as BBC Trust Chairman to the Secretary of State on 6 May 2014; citing health reasons following his heart bypass surgery on 28 April. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. And cross-checking against my wifes diary, to make sure I had the days right.. In 1990, he was appointed the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party. Miserable times he writes. Its not woke to do that. East and West. Please ensure your comments are relevant and appropriate. If they inspire you please support our work. [citation needed]. I talk in the diaries about trying to explain to my opposite number in Beijing what the rule of law was, that it wasnt rule by law. What I should say, he said, is that we dont have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party which is populist, but fatally without being popular.. People said to him he couldnt talk to students about death, but he thought, why not? After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. 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. Angela Wintle. 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. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. 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. In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. All real Hong Kongers miss the Patten family very much. Laura, Kate and little Alice, the daughters of the last Governor Chris Patten, were only in their early teens when they became unlikely celebrities. The Black Watch [the last British military unit to leave] werent going to hold Hong Kong against the Peoples Liberation Army. Friday July 01 2022, 5.00pm, The Sunday Times. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( Chinese: ; [1] born 12 May 1944) is a British politician. Kris is HKFP's Editorial Director. Christopher Francis Patten was born on May 12 1944. 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. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. Under a painted portrait of Patten and his wife of 51 years are photographs of their eight grandchildren. 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. Patten said afterwards the Royal Pageant had not been the BBC's "finest hour" and admitted that "The tone was wrong."[21]. 1 episode, Midsomer Murders (2004) as Emily Hide. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary LL.D. She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. Verden, Alexander Griffiths, SnipsGTI, Brian Sousa, bilbens baggo, Stuart, IbKelek, Galygious, Andrew Patton, Nicole Patten, Clementine . Tv film Basanti (2006) as Sue McKinley. This article about an English actor is a stub. 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. During his tenure, his government significantly expanded the territory's social welfare programmes and introduced democratic reforms to the electoral system.[2]. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. In June 1983, he was made the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office. We're completely supportive of her and backing her 110 per cent. 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 . Raised in west London, Patten studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. 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. "We are very, very happy together," she says. Please refresh the page and/or try again. Receiving a Coolidge travelling scholarship, he went to US, where he was part of the campaign of then-Republican New York Mayor John Lindsay. In 1979, he won his first parliamentary election to become an MP from Bath. Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. [22] BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. Chris Patten, the 28th and last governor of Hong Kong was swallowing hard as he emerged from Government House for the last time yesterday afternoon. Something went wrong. 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. 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". 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. Enter your password to log in. 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. His job was to accumulate information on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley, Jr. St Mary's Barnes, United Kingdom, SW13 9HL. St Martin's Place He was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 until 1997, Chairman for the Independent Commission on Policing after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 . 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