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Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, KG, CH, PC (Chinese: 彭定康; [3] 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.
Feb 6, 2024 · Oxford University chancellor Chris Patten has announced “with a heavy heart” that he will retire after more than 20 years in the role. He said he will retire at the end of the 2023/24 academic...
Jun 27, 2022 · “You have to say when things are wicked”: Chris Patten’s lessons from negotiating with China Hong Kong's last British governor on hopes betrayed, the risk of repeating mistakes and his view of Boris Johnson.
Aug 1, 2024 · Oxford University’s outgoing Chancellor Chris Patten has given a farewell interview, shared with university alumni yesterday, as he prepares to hang up his cap. In it, Patten, a former...
Oxford University chancellor Chris Patten has announced “with a heavy heart” that he will retire after more than 20 years in the role. He said he will retire at the end of the 2023/24 academic...
Christopher Francis Patten was born in 1944. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History and was elected a Domus Exhibitioner. In 1965 he won a Coolidge Travelling Scholarship to the USA.
Jul 13, 2022 · Chris Patten flies back to Hong Kong in 1992, the year he was appointed governor © Corbis via Getty Images. But he reserves particular venom for the British and Hong Kong business leaders —...
Chris Patten is a close friend of the former Prime Minister John Major and following the loss of his parliamentary seat he was seen as the ideal candidate to oversee the handover of...
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...
Jul 7, 2022 · Chris Patten, the governor, notes in his diary a “fascinating” find: decade-old telegrams that showed what he and many others had always suspected.
