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Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. Friday & Saturday 10:30 - 21:00. His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. 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 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark. In September 2005 he was elected a Distinguished Honorary Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto (the only person so elected except for the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, the Duke of Edinburgh) as well as receiving an honorary D.S.Litt. A practising Roman Catholic, he organized Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. To me, they're not a story, they're just my girls.". He was promoted to be a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science in September 1985, and was named Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in September 1986. [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. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. His background is decidedly unstarry: his mother is a housewife from Dominica, his father worked as a warehouseman. 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. Do you think that they always saw through that? Ann Lewis. He states baldly at one point a belief in an afterlife. Its not woke to do that. Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit opportunities. 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. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). She's very charming, and can talk even the most unlikely person into appearing on TV.". On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003. 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. degree from the University of Bath. | Contact Us | Newsletter | Annual & Transparency Report. You can buy a print of most illustrated portraits. Millions of premium Stock photos and illustrations created by leading commercial photographers, world-famous Museums, Historical Archives and Private Collections. 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St Martin's Place How Covid helped China tighten its hold on Hong Kong, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. A colleague who works with Kate at the BBC describes her as "serious and hard-working". Chris Patten. For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. 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. "I thought there was a prospect that (China) would keep its word, and I'm sorry that it hasn't," he said in London. 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Loree Seitz / The Wrap: David Zaslav Signals Confidence in CNN Chief Chris Licht: . 2023 Hong Kong news - Independent, non-profit, impartial. He was one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004. We're completely supportive of her and backing her 110 per cent. Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944, in Cleveleys, Lancashire, England, to Frank and Joan Patten. I mean, it was a colonial project. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? When Alice took her bow on the stage of Wyndham's Theatre on Monday night, both Laura and Kate were there to support her. The 42-year-old musician's family confirmed to People magazine that Hannah Price, who was found dead in her home two . It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". It's that kind of awful TV.". 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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 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. Two books, one by the ex-governor and another by professor Ho-fung Hung, offer insights into China's savage repression . During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. 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. According to information from WikiLeaks, Patten was in Moscow in April 2004 and had concluded EURussia ministerial consultations in Brussels. What the Chinese have done in Xinjiang is wicked. 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. If ever there as a contradiction in terms it is that. 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. 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. 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 Its funny you should say that. After the speech in 2017, he says, there was a Q&A. Delivery charges may apply. He also helmed the initiative of passing the Environmental Protection Act 1990. 01 Dec 1990. 1 episode, Downtown Abbey (2014) as Diana Clark. [23], In September 2020, he wrote that "Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping's dictatorship is certainly thuggish. The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten is published by Allen Lane . In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. She threatened to leave home forever on social media. Connor Patten Basketball. 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. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. 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. 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. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. Try AbeBooks. He laughs. Photo by Fiona Hanson/PA 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. 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. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( Chinese: ; [1] born 12 May 1944) is a British politician. Im grateful for your support, I love you Hong Kong, a poston the Alice Patten Facebook page said. Before relinquishing the colonial administration to China in 1997, he was fighting daily battles, mostly verbal, with . The plan was to hand the lot over to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, but he felt he should get it in order. Support HKFP | Code of Ethics | Error/typo? Kris Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist with an interest in local politics. JACK HILL. Try AbeBooks. Patten's defeat was attributed to factors such as the Poll Tax.[6]. The two posts combined had received more than 8,000 likes and 700 shares by Monday morning. 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. Which he thought was something which was valuable to South Africa. Those are three values for the scrapbook. 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. Patten was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! He has a BSSc in Sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His wifes father competed in the 1936 Olympics, part of that Chariots of Fire generation, and was killed in 1944. 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]. Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944 in Ealing, London, England. His father was a jazz drummer who later became a popular music publisher. (1973-), Television producer; daughter of Chris Patten, Paul McCartney Photographs 196364: Eyes of the Storm, Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, Mary Lavender St Leger Patten (ne Thornton), / Person - Katharine Joan ('Kate') Patten. After he left Hong Kong, Patten was part of the EU team that negotiated Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization in 2002. [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. At the United Nations, he met with China's foreign affairs minister, Tang . (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). Please could you let us know your source of information. In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. He is the co-chair of International Crisis Group, overseeing many international operations. What theyre doing in Hong Kong is wicked. A picture of the family of last governor Chris Patten posted by her daughter Alice (left, front) on her Facebook turns viral on social media. I've been in this job for a couple of years. Hannah Price died at the age of 25 in Fentress County, Tenn. A woman. [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]. 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. Lord Patten married Lavender Thornton in 1971. 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