And nobody should ever see the words Nadine Dorries and culture secretary in the same sentence.. [26] They have three daughters, including the actress Alice Patten. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. 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. He states baldly at one point a belief in an afterlife. The first was a literalist one based on a reading by Ronald Knox, who was chaplain to Catholic students at Oxford. He was born into an Irish Catholic family on his paternal side. CH PC Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes 1944512 Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 19921997 Chris Daughtry 's family has confirmed his stepdaughter's cause of death. Between February 2010 and June 2011, he served as the President of Medical Aid for Palestinians. We normally spend our time down the pub and avoid society events like the plague.". "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. 1 episode, Jonathan Creek (2004) as Dawn/Gillian Bailey. If ever there as a contradiction in terms it is that. Patten grew up in an Irish Catholic family in west London, the son of an unsuccessful music publisher whose forebears had come to England from County Roscommon, Ireland. It's just that after those heady years in the spotlight, her sisters would seem to crave the exact opposite. "I cried all day," she says of her very public departure. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. The Black Watch [the last British military unit to leave] werent going to hold Hong Kong against the Peoples Liberation Army. He lost his first parliamentary election (for Lambeth Central) in 1974 against the Labour Party candidate Marcus Lipton. 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. Please note your email address will not be displayed on the page nor will it be used for any marketing material or promotion of any kind. You can see it in the language used by [former Hong Kong chief executive] Carrie Lam and now this terrible policeman who is her successor, John Lee. As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. When Alice took her bow on the stage of Wyndham's Theatre on Monday night, both Laura and Kate were there to support her. degree from the University of Bath. [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. Press release from the City of Menifee: MENIFEE - Menifee's street projects and construction updates are getting an upgrade! Please refresh the page and/or try again. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. 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. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. This article about an English actor is a stub. Hong Kong's legacy from Chris Patten's Diaries to City on the Edge. In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark. For a decade between 1999 and 2009, he was the Chancellor of Newcastle University. Join our newsletter and follow us on our social media channels to find out more about exhibitions, events and the people and portraits in our Collection. Then chairman of the BBC Trust, fighting a rearguard action against cuts. Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. He was one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2004. Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last governor of Hong Kong. Tony Blair suggested that it made the road to democracy [in China] unstoppable. 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. 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. 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.. East and West HB Spec Ed. After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. If you tick permission to publish your name will appear above your contribution on our website. "Her last one was a series about boxing. It is hard to beat Dominic Grieves description of him as a moral vacuum., A few minutes later he phones me back. After his loss in 1992, Patten declined the offer of a new seat and assumed the position of the 28th Governor of Hong Kong. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. 1979 . It was politically and morally difficult both for them and for us. Between 1998 and 1999, Chris Patten served as the Chairperson of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART Yana Gupta. I mean, it was a colonial project. In October, he severely criticised the Hong Kong government for banning face masks. 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. 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. We werent preparing it for independence. Patten lives in a large villa in Barnes in south-west London, next to the wooded common. They're now grown up and all doing fine. They have three daughters, Kate (born in 1973), Laura (1974) and Alice (1979). At midnight Hong Kong Time 1 July 1997 (16:00 GMT, 30 June 1997), he sent the telegram: "I have relinquished the administration of this government. 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THE youngest daughter of Chris Patten is to star in a "lusty" BBC One drama about the life and loves of King Charles II. He described the government as shameful and seedy. He fears the results are being played out in Hong Kong. In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. He is portrayed by Noel Lester Rands.[30]. 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? [17], According to information from the US Embassy in Brussels (published by WikiLeaks in November 2010): Patten said in April 2004 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has done a good job for Russia mainly due to high world energy prices, but he had serious doubts about the man's character. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. 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. What will happen if the Communist party starts arresting us, sending people to prison? In answer, he went, he says, through all those quotes one uses, you know, Nelson Mandela, you cant lock up an idea, and so on. In 2003, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Sandra Lee is most worried for Andrew Cuomo's daughters in the wake of his sexual harassment scandal, sources told The Post.. Lee, who was with Cuomo for 14 years until their spit in September . You can buy a print of most illustrated portraits. Patten married Lavender Thornton, a barrister, on 11 September 1971. How I wonder, sitting on his plump sofa, does he envisage that? Blonde and elfin, Alice - who was nicknamed "Little Princess" by her sisters - found it perhaps hardest of all to adjust to returning to Britain. He held this position within the Prodi Commission from 23 January 2000 until 22 November 2004. Verden, Alexander Griffiths, SnipsGTI, Brian Sousa, bilbens baggo, Stuart, IbKelek, Galygious, Andrew Patton, Nicole Patten, Clementine . The family has enjoyed good image among the populace, contrasting oddly with the city's present first family hit by accusation of abuse of power. 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. She's very charming, and can talk even the most unlikely person into appearing on TV.". The one he liked most was coined by an Episcopalian American missionary bishop who talked about being on the seashore with his friend. We have been together for ages and he's wonderful. In a speech on the future of the BBC, which he said was "one of this country's greatest institutions", Patten called on ministers to respect the "besieged" broadcaster's independence, and set in place measures to stop it becoming "the plaything of the government of the day". The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. 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. However the general public regarded him positively. Between 1974 and 1979, he served as the director of the Conservative Research Department. 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. 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 plans call for 21 apartment units . Well, there are two elements to it. Chris Patten at his home in Barnes. 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. Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. Patten was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office in June 1983. Try AbeBooks. Patten was not a career diplomat, unlike the previous governors. Alice Patten. After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. Under a painted portrait of Patten and his wife of 51 years are photographs of their eight grandchildren. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. 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