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). She's very charming, and can talk even the most unlikely person into appearing on TV.". The daughters of Chris Patten, Laura, Kate and Alice, say a tearful goodbye to Hong Kong, from on board the Royal yacht Britannia. It's just that after those heady years in the spotlight, her sisters would seem to crave the exact opposite. His father was a jazz drummer who later became a popular music publisher. 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. Patten was noted to be in tears throughout the day, notably after his speech at Tamar. He has been an opponent of the movement at Oxford to tear down the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. God Save The Queen. Try AbeBooks. [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. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. 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. 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 was born into an Irish Catholic family on his paternal side. [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]. 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.. In 1979, he won his first parliamentary election to become an MP from Bath. 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. Environment secretary Chris Patten (r) was charged with introducing the poll tax Instead of the tax shining a spotlight on spendthrift local councils, she said, the government was getting the. He was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong, serving between 1992 and 1997. (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. Wednesday night, musician Chris Daughtry and his wife shared the cause of their daughter's sudden death on Nov. 12, 2021. Great Britain and the World. In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. 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. 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. There are still a few. Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. I take as my baseline what Nelson Mandela said about the Rhodes Trust, he says. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. 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. On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. Miserable times he writes. 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. [22] BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. In June 1983, he was made the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office. 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. After two weeks without a glimpse, Governor Chris Patten's teenage daughter, Laura, had been spotted in the beauty salon of the colony's 108-year-old Ladies' Recreation Club along with her. While he basically orchestrated the Conservative victory in the general election of 1992, he lost his own MP seat at Bath. . Chris Patten. 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. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. "They didn't have the choice. Source for information on Patten, Chris 1944-: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary. There is an inevitable sentimental or nostalgic strain to Pattens diaries of 25 years ago, as he departed on the royal yacht. Can you tell us more about this person? He was appointed Secretary of State for the Environment by Margaret Thatcher in 1989 as part of her third ministry, becoming responsible for implementation of the unpopular poll tax. 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. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last colonial governor, departed from the Government House in Hong Kong on the 1 st July 1997, and made the historic and iconic trip back to the HMY Britannia. 10 Jun 2008. Contributions are moderated. Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post: Trump may be . He was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 until 1997, Chairman for the Independent Commission on Policing after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 . 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. 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. 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. Try AbeBooks. Im grateful for your support, I love you Hong Kong, a poston the Alice Patten Facebook page said. 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.. Try AbeBooks. 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. 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.. The controversial US oil plan explained, Green leader storms out of council meeting after being misgendered. 1,311 Chris Patten Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Creative Editorial Video Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 1,311 chris patten stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. 01 Dec 1990. [2][3], Her first major role after graduation was Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton in the West End in 2002.[4]. 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. He states baldly at one point a belief in an afterlife. Which he thought was something which was valuable to South Africa. [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. Those are three values for the scrapbook. 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. Tory! 1,490 Chris Patten Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 1,490 chris patten stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Friday & Saturday 10:30 - 21:00. 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. His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. Chris Patten trying to console his daughter Kate (left) on the evening of Hong Kong's handover as daughter Alice looks on. In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. Former Hong Kong Gov. Alice Patten. 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. They're now grown up and all doing fine. Those were the days when HK people were proud of their identity, another said. As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory at the 1992 general election. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. 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. His latest sermon outlined three possibilities. This article about an English actor is a stub. The two posts combined had received more than 8,000 likes and 700 shares by Monday morning. 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. He put out his memoir, 'Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs', on September 29, 2005. Read our, {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}. Lavender doesnt entirely approve; I think she fears it makes me a tad sanctimonious. Patten also played the role of Vicky Anderson, in an episode of New Tricks, the daughter of an English-born Hong Kong businessman, Douglas Anderson, who had been involved in questionable building deals in Hong Kong, shortly before the end of British rule in 1997.[5]. 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. 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. It involved turning 850,000 words into 250,000. And I dont see what pulls the party together again. They bought the. She still lives at home with her parents and is particularly close to her father, who is now the external relations commissioner for the European Union and is described by Alice as "the best listener I know". I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of . 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. 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