The plan was to hand the lot over to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, but he felt he should get it in order. After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. degree from the University of Ulster. Marisabina Russo, Russo, Marisabina 1950- Russo, Marisabina 1950- Personal Born May 1, 1950, in New York, NY; daughter of Michele Russo (a naval . (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. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. 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. Lord Patten said China . 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. "It spits in the face of human rights and shows a delusional view of the Chinese Communist Party's trustworthiness on the international stage," Patten is quoted by the Daily Mail.. His comments came as 53 people were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of "subversion" in Hong Kong. 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 June 1983, he was made the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office. 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"). In 2010, The Tablet named him as one of Britain's most influential Catholics. Chris Patten. 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. 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. Verden, Alexander Griffiths, SnipsGTI, Brian Sousa, bilbens baggo, Stuart, IbKelek, Galygious, Andrew Patton, Nicole Patten, Clementine . Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than him. 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. "We think the world of her, but as far as I'm concerned, there isn't really much to say. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. 2023 Hong Kong news - Independent, non-profit, impartial. "[24] Patten said that Chinese company Huawei "is an agent of an unpleasant Chinese state."[25]. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( Chinese: ; [1] born 12 May 1944) is a British politician. Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. Former Hong Kong Gov. 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. How I wonder, sitting on his plump sofa, does he envisage that? London, WC2H 0HE It's that kind of awful TV.". If you have information to share please complete the form below. 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. Try AbeBooks. 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. There are still a few. However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. And I just think Johnson is terribly wrong. Read our, {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}. 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For a decade between 1999 and 2009, he was the Chancellor of Newcastle University. [15] This report led to the disbanding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and establishment of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post: Trump may be . Prices start at 6 for unframed prints, 25 for framed prints. 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". (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). "She's very popular here, partly because she pulls her weight, partly because she's fun too. [18], On 11 January 2005 Patten was created a life peer as Baron Patten of Barnes, of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. 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 two posts combined had received more than 8,000 likes and 700 shares by Monday morning. See PA story ROYAL Patten. Friday & Saturday 10:30 - 21:00. "I cried all day," she says of her very public departure. His second thought was metaphor. We dont have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party. Chris Patten photographed at his home in London. 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. 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 . From 2014 to 2016, he worked under Pope Francis as the head of the body that advises the Vatican on media strategy. Patten married Lavender Thornton, a barrister, on 11 September 1971. 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. Those are three values for the scrapbook. The 42-year-old musician's family confirmed to People magazine that Hannah Price, who was found dead in her home two . Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit opportunities. Visiting him is like stepping into a lost Conservative hinterland. "This is where I'm happiest: on stage," she says. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired. 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. CH PC Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes 1944512 Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 19921997 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. 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. 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. This wasnt a colony like any other. and at Queens' College, Cambridge. We have been together for ages and he's wonderful. Tue 28th June 2022. Nostalgia for theformer first family was also invokedby an incident in March last year. 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). After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. 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. But after the official handing over ceremony was complete, and they had been poured stiff gins by Prince Charles aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia, the Patten family faced a rather ignominious return to a semi-detached Victorian house in Barnes. 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. In 2003, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford. You can opt-out at any time by signing in to your account to manage your preferences. 1 episode, Merlin (20092010) as Ygraine. Despite this, he enjoyed significant popularity in Hong Kong. His book ends with a postscript that is a rallying cry for the democracy movement in his former home (and his current one) - their cause is our cause. [29], In 2014 Pope Francis appointed Patten to head a body to advise the Vatican on media strategy and on how to handle the press, which he remained on until 2016. 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.. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that 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. 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. He put out his memoir, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs, on September 29, 2005. [33], University roles and elevation to the peerage, BBC royal river pageant outside broadcast, Critical studies and reviews of Patten's work. When Alice took her bow on the stage of Wyndham's Theatre on Monday night, both Laura and Kate were there to support her. Reading his 2017 memoir, First Confession, I was struck by how much his faith meant to him. 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. And him looking at me mystified. Search instead in Creative? Please Like other favourites! The good old days when HK was the Pearl of the Orient, one commentator said, which was liked more than 250times. I look at people like Jeremy Hunt though I fear it is going to ruin his leadership chances for me to say hes perfectly good and decent.. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003.. Raised in west London, Patten studied history at . "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. "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. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. 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. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. The page posted two old photos of Pattens family when they wereat the Government House. 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. In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark. Patten's actions were strongly criticised by the pro-Beijing political parties of Hong Kong. And they hate it when we do.. 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 garnered widespread criticism for the controversial Community Charge (or so-called "Poll Tax"). 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. 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.. Its not woke to do that. 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. It came, however, immediately in the wake of widespread criticism of the BBC's live outside-broadcast coverage of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee River Pageant on 3 June 2012, which was castigated in the press and was the subject of 1,830 formal complaints by viewers. 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. Had he not lost his own seat in Bath in that election, partly because he was associated with the poll tax, he would have become, at 48, chancellor of the exchequer. n Hong Kong, they were known as the Three Graces. 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. 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. People said to him he couldnt talk to students about death, but he thought, why not? It was going to become part of China. Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944, in Cleveleys, Lancashire, England, to Frank and Joan Patten. His job was to accumulate information on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley, Jr. Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. degree from the University of Bath. Do you think that they always saw through that? The Black Watch [the last British military unit to leave] werent going to hold Hong Kong against the Peoples Liberation Army. Keir Starmer demands Covid inquiry reports by end of year, Police scour woodland in search for Constance Martens baby, Dozens killed after passenger and freight train collide in Greece, Hancock under fire over care home deaths and chaotic Covid response, London Bridge overcrowding: Give TfL control of Southeastern trains, Number of children in food poverty near double in a year to 4 million, Putins 274mil spy plane destroyed by drones at air base in Belarus, What is the Willow Project? They're now grown up and all doing fine. The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten is published by Allen Lane . Her two elder sisters, Laura and Kate, however, are less keen to recapture their moment in the spotlight. During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. He described the government as shameful and seedy. Patten tried, he says, to give an answer that recognised that he was not being required to be as brave as they might be, in making that choice. Bartis Edmond Hawley-Wall, Kyler Havard, Zealot23, Nich Smith, Matt Koltes, Chris Mulvihill . A colleague who works with Kate at the BBC describes her as "serious and hard-working". [citation needed]. 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. According to information from WikiLeaks, Patten was in Moscow in April 2004 and had concluded EURussia ministerial consultations in Brussels. Hardback. 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. 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. Hobbies and other interests: Tennis, reading, browsing in bookshops. [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. On 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.[16]. We would welcome any information that adds to and enhances our information and understanding about a particular portrait, sitter or artist. Laura, Kate and little Alice, the daughters of the last Governor Chris Patten, were only in their early teens when they became unlikely celebrities. He was born into an Irish Catholic family on his paternal side. 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. Chris Patten is Chancellor of Oxford University. 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. 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. Tory! In 2004, she appeared in Jonathan Creek as Gillian Bailey.
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