Chris Patten was born on May 12, 1944 in Ealing, London, England. 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired. 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". He has a BSSc in Sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work has been featured in Washington Post, Public Radio International, Hong Kong Economic Times and others. He states baldly at one point a belief in an afterlife. We dont have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party. Chris Patten photographed at his home in London. If they inspire you please support our work. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. 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. However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. (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. In June 1983, he was made the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office. After the speech in 2017, he says, there was a Q&A. 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. (Photo by David Montgomery/Getty Images) PURCHASE A LICENSE Get personalized pricing by telling us when, where, and how you want to use this asset. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. All real Hong Kongers miss the Patten family very much. 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. In 2010, The Tablet named him as one of Britain's most influential Catholics. Tory! [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. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). Chris Patten. Between 1974 and 1979, he served as the director of the Conservative Research Department. The 1996 Hong Kong parody film Bodyguards of the Last Governor, presents 'Christ Pattern' as the Governor of Hong Kong. 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. Anyway on we go, in my case to Strasbourg and treason the European parliament. Even for old Tories, hope springs eternal. It is hard to beat Dominic Grieves description of him as a moral vacuum., A few minutes later he phones me back. RM 2D332TK - Chris Patten, the EU Commissioner and last Governor of Hong Kong, after the installation ceremony as Chancellor at Oxford University in Oxford, with from left daughters Laura, Alice, wife Lavender and daughter Kate. Showing Editorial results for chris patten. Patten seems a consummately relaxed 78. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (Chinese: ;[1] 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. There is an inevitable sentimental or nostalgic strain to Pattens diaries of 25 years ago, as he departed on the royal yacht. [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. 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. Patten's most controversial actions in Hong Kong are related to the 1994 electoral reform. Please refresh the page and/or try again. He returned to sit with the Conservative party in the House of Lords in September of that year. 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. "[12] This marked the end of British rule in Hong Kong. Netizens were amazed by the apparent response from the English actress, however, as it is a fan page it isunlikely that it is managedby Patten herself. I'm absolutely proud of them, they're all doing terrifically well. Its funny you should say that. "She travelled to cities such as San Francisco for Rock Shrines," he says. Consider its policies in Xinjiang. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. 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. I mean, it was a colonial project. PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN STILLWELL/PA. If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. His wifes father competed in the 1936 Olympics, part of that Chariots of Fire generation, and was killed in 1944. God Save The Queen. 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 . Her two elder sisters, Laura and Kate, however, are less keen to recapture their moment in the spotlight. Before that, he was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART 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. (30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound The last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten has left his colonial-style mansion for good.Patten bade his 250 staff an emotional. Try AbeBooks. [23], In September 2020, he wrote that "Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping's dictatorship is certainly thuggish. Cut to June 30 1997, and his daughters' faces, like his wife's, were "crumpled with emotion and streaked with tears". Friends describe Rookwood, or "Rookers" as he is known, as "an avid Liverpool supporter, and a bit of a lad", but say that the couple - who have been together for eight months - are in love. "We think the world of her, but as far as I'm concerned, there isn't really much to say. [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. 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. Bartis Edmond Hawley-Wall, Kyler Havard, Zealot23, Nich Smith, Matt Koltes, Chris Mulvihill . 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. 1 episode, Midsomer Murders (2004) as Emily Hide. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. If you tick permission to publish your name will appear above your contribution on our website. Chris Patten at his home in Barnes. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. Lavender doesnt entirely approve; I think she fears it makes me a tad sanctimonious. 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. CH PC Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes 1944512 Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 19921997 It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". Isnt deciding who we venerate a vital part of that reckoning also? We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. 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]. [27], Patten is a Catholic and oversaw Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. And him looking at me mystified. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary LL.D. Chris Patten. Visiting him is like stepping into a lost Conservative hinterland. 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. 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. Simply to denounce it seems crazy. Something went wrong. : Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH PC 1944 512 - . "They didn't have the choice. Lord Patten married Lavender Thornton in 1971. Its been a very long nervous breakdown. Chris Patten, who led Britain's last government in Hong Kong before the Asian financial hub was returned to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997, said it was "heartbreaking" to see its transformation. "He seems a completely reasonable man when discussing the Middle East or energy policy, but when the conversation shifts to Chechnya or Islamic extremism, Putin's eyes turn to those of a killer.". 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. Search instead in Creative? Raised in west London, Patten studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. 1 episode, Heroes and Villains (2008) as Joan. We should say so. 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 . And cross-checking against my wifes diary, to make sure I had the days right.. He held this position within the Prodi Commission from 23 January 2000 until 22 November 2004. Open Daily: 10:30 - 18:00 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.. But life as just another face in the crowd never seemed likely for the Patten girls and now, Alice, the youngest of the three daughters, has just landed her first big acting role in Nicholas Wright's Vincent in Brixton, which opened on Monday in the West End. He was the architect of Major's 1992 election victory, built on a belief that, post-Thatcher, the party must be "tolerant,. At which point, the young mans lovely girlfriend just burst into tears. [citation needed]. [17], Patten was the biggest proponent in the commission for Turkey's accession to the European Union. After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. After serving the organisation for three years, he resigned on May 6, 2014. 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. Support HKFP | Code of Ethics | Error/typo? She's very charming, and can talk even the most unlikely person into appearing on TV.". By clicking Sign up you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice. He is the co-chair of International Crisis Group, overseeing many international operations. If you have information to share please complete the form below. He also helmed the initiative of passing the Environmental Protection Act 1990. 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. She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. The daughters of Chris Patten, (l to r) Laura, Kate and Alice, say a tearful goodbye to Hong Kong, from on board the Royal yacht Britannia. 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. Patten's guest was entranced by a picture of his children on his desk and asked: "How come ugly father produce such beautiful daughters?" He served a full five-year term before his ennoblement. +44(0)20 7306 0055, Admission free. After graduating, she took a job with billionaire Peter Woo's Wharf Cable TV channel, before graduating to work on Esther Rantzen's That's Life! Theyre watching a ship under full sail heading over the horizon at dusk. SHANGHAI -- Seventeen years after sailing on Britain's Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong, the tango dancer is on the move again. Loree Seitz / The Wrap: David Zaslav Signals Confidence in CNN Chief Chris Licht: . It was going to become part of China. Wednesday night, musician Chris Daughtry and his wife shared the cause of their daughter's sudden death on Nov. 12, 2021. There are still a few. He is also the one of only two living former governors of Hong Kong with Sir David Wilson. Patten was not a career diplomat, unlike the previous governors. LegCo members returned in 1995 were originally to serve beyond the Handover, thereby providing institutional continuity across the transition of Hong Kong to the PRC. One time I. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. 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. Please could you let us know your source of information. A practising Roman Catholic, he organized Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. We would welcome any information that adds to and enhances our information and understanding about a particular portrait, sitter or artist. 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. [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. 01 Dec 1990. It's just that after those heady years in the spotlight, her sisters would seem to crave the exact opposite. In politics, one has to make a distinction between people who are doing things that are wrong and people who are trying to do things that are right. I've been in this job for a couple of years. He put out his memoir, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs, on September 29, 2005. You can opt-out at any time by signing in to your account to manage your preferences. This wasnt a colony like any other. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of . Do you think that they always saw through that? Tory! 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. Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. Contributions are moderated. help his daughter bypass airport security rules, I can finally breathe: Some celebrate the end of Hong Kongs Covid mask rule, but most remain cautious, US politicians call for sanctions on Hong Kong prosecutors in 47 democrats case; Beijing slams hypocritic political show, In Pictures: Hong Kong bids farewell to Pennys Bay Covid facility with giant padlock and Auld Lang Syne, Hong Kong 47: Prosecutors to seek witness anonymity order as trial adjourned over defendants injury, Covid-19: Medic urges Hong Kong students to remove face masks to improve learning, immunity, Artist Vaevae Chan spent years building a cave in a Hong Kong high rise. 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. For a decade between 1999 and 2009, he was the Chancellor of Newcastle University. He garnered widespread criticism for the controversial Community Charge (or so-called "Poll Tax"). Verden, Alexander Griffiths, SnipsGTI, Brian Sousa, bilbens baggo, Stuart, IbKelek, Galygious, Andrew Patton, Nicole Patten, Clementine . We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. 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. Chris Patten, Hong Kong's final British governor before the 1997 handover, says the UK should tell China its proposal for a Hong Kong national security law is "outrageous". 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 went over and addressed the students who organised the protests against Hong Kongs security laws a couple of times, at the invitation of their informal leader, Joshua Wong. Hannah Price died at the age of 25 in Fentress County, Tenn. A woman. In addition to the name, Pattern appears to be based heavily on Patten, matching his appearance, political affiliation (Conservative) and family (a wife and two daughters with him in Hong Kong). 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. [citation needed]. However the general public regarded him positively. "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. Alice Patten. 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 PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. and at Queens' College, Cambridge. Can you tell us more about this person? He was then an EU commissioner, partly responsible for the unions foreign policy. 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. 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. They had the mandate of heaven and I didnt even have the mandate of the voters of Bath. We normally spend our time down the pub and avoid society events like the plague.". 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". Katharine Joan ('Kate') Patten (1973-), Television producer; daughter of Chris Patten Sitter in 1 portrait Tell us More Like List Thumbnail Sort by Chris Patten and his family by Jillian Edelstein bromide fibre print, August 1990 NPG x45377 Find out more > Use this image Related People Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes (father) 1 episode, Merlin (20092010) as Ygraine. JACK HILL. [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. Try AbeBooks. Patten's actions were strongly criticised by the pro-Beijing political parties of Hong Kong. 26 Sep 2005. 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. [32] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor honoris causa by South East European University. The book was a lockdown project. 1 episode, New Tricks (2010) as Vicky Anderson. His role however is minor as the film depicts him being replaced with one month to go before the handover. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than him. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003. Tory! 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.. 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. See PA story ROYAL Patten. Please ensure your comments are relevant and appropriate. Skip to main content . 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. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account, Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number, I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from Evening Standard. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. A media frenzy greeted their exuberant, mini-skirted arrival in 1992, and their gulping tears when they left five years later came to symbolise the last days of the British Empire in the territory.. "I'm the deputy beauty editor at Tatler, I'm very happy here, and that's it really. "I thought there was a prospect that (China) would keep its word, and I'm sorry that it hasn't," he said in London. In 1979, he won his first parliamentary election to become an MP from Bath. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. His first job in the party was as a desk officer. 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. In 1999, Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was in New York representing the European Commission. According to information from WikiLeaks, Patten was in Moscow in April 2004 and had concluded EURussia ministerial consultations in Brussels. After he left Hong Kong, Patten was part of the EU team that negotiated Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization in 2002. 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. Source for information on Patten, Chris 1944-: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary. 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. He is known for Tory! "I cried all day," she says of her very public departure. 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? As the last Governor, Chris Patten kept diaries giving unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were strengthened and how he sought to ensure . She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). [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. I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. There are occasions when we are unsure of the identity of a sitter or artist, their life dates, occupation or have not recorded their family relationships. In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. He might just have got through the modest . He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. Ann Lewis. Its an aspect of a mature patriotism to look at both the good bit and the bad bits. "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. Also Known As: Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, children: Alice Patten, Kate Patten, Laura Patten, See the events in life of Chris Patten in Chronological Order, (Chancellor of the University of Oxford (Since 2003)). Under a painted portrait of Patten and his wife of 51 years are photographs of their eight grandchildren. The controversial US oil plan explained, Green leader storms out of council meeting after being misgendered. Chris Patten trying to console his daughter Kate (left) on the evening of Hong Kong's handover as daughter Alice looks on. Its too depressing to think about, Patten says. In 2004, she appeared in Jonathan Creek as Gillian Bailey. Yana Gupta. The daughters of Chris Patten, Laura, Kate and Alice, say a tearful goodbye to Hong Kong, from on board the Royal yacht Britannia. Do you have specialist knowledge or a particular interest about any aspect of the portrait or sitter or artist that you can share with us? Chris Patten. He was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 until 1997, Chairman for the Independent Commission on Policing after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 . In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. 07 Sep 1998. Christopher Francis Patten was born on May 12 1944. Contact Us Enter your password to log in. St Mary's Barnes, United Kingdom, SW13 9HL. Patten was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office in June 1983. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC is a politician from Britain. degree from the University of Trinity College, Toronto and an honorary D.Litt. Donations welcome Before relinquishing the colonial administration to China in 1997, he was fighting daily battles, mostly verbal, with . [8], In contrast to his predecessors, Patten decided not to wear the official Court uniform on formal occasions. 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. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? Does he ever get mad, watching his lifes work, at home and abroad, unravel? How I wonder, sitting on his plump sofa, does he envisage that? 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 elected as the Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979, and served until he was unseated in 1992. 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. 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