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Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, Order of the Companions of Honour|CH, Privy Council|PC (born 12 May 1944) is a prominent United Kingdom|British Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative politician. Originally an MP, he lost his seat and became the last Commander in Chief and British Governor of Hong Kong. After Hong Kong's cession to China, Patten became a European Commissioner. After leaving that post, he was raised to the Peerage. Educated in St Benedict's School, Ealing, and Balliol College, Oxford, he had worked in the Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party since 1966, starting in the Conservative Research Department. He was Chairman of the CRD from 1974 to 1979. He was a Member of Parliament from 1979 to 1992, and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 until 1992 before losing his seat for Bath to the Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat Don Foster at the 1992 UK general election. Ironically, as party chairman he was widely considered as the main architect of the Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative victory in that election. During the election period, his Parliamentary Private Secretary was Tim Hailes. He was Secretary of State for International Development|Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 10 September 1986 to 24 July 1989. He was later Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (a sinecure) from 1990 to 1992. In July 1992, he became the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong|Governor of Hong Kong until its handover to the People's Republic of China on 30 June 1997. He was given an official Chinese name, Peng Dingkang (彭定康), for his governorship. Unlike previous Hong Kong Governors, he was not an official from the department that focused on colonial issues, but he was a politician. During his governorship, he extended the definition of Functional constituency|functional constituencies and thus virtually every Hongkonger was able to vote for the so-called indirectly elected members (see Politics of Hong Kong) and so the Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council could better represent the Hong Kong people. His measure was strongly objected by the Communists of Hong Kong who suffered from the electoral changes and he himself was orally insulted by the PRC government as an 'eternal sinner' (千古罪人). The institutional reform gained majority support in Hong Kong. The criticism from the PRC government indeed raised his popularity to a level he never enjoyed inside the UK. After Hong Kong's handover, he left Hong Kong on 1 July 1997, together with Charles, Prince of Wales|The Prince of Wales, on board HMY Britannia|HM Yacht Britannia. In 1998-1999, 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. On September 9, 1999 the Commission produced its report, entitled A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland but popularly known as the Patten Report, which contained 175 symbolic and practical recommendations. In 1999, he was appointed one of the United Kingdom's two members of the European Commission|Commission of the European Communities, with responsibility for External Relations. He held this position within the Prodi Commission from 23 January 2000 to 22 November 2004. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany. He, once an unwelcome governor in the PRC, is warmly greeted by Chinese officials with his role in the European Union. Image:ChrisPatten20050317 CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|Lord Patten in regalia as the Chancellor of the University of Oxford Lord Patten of Barnes is the Chancellor for the Universities of University of Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle and University of Oxford|Oxford. He is a patron of the Tory Reform Group.
Category:1944 births|Patten, Chris Category:British MPs|Patten, Chris Category:UK Conservative Party politicians|Patten, Chris Category:Life peers|Patten, Chris Category:British Secretaries of State|Patten, Chris Category:Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster|Patten, Chris Category:European Commissioners|Patten, Chris Category:Members of the Privy Council|Patten, Chris Category:Governors of Hong Kong|Patten, Chris de:Chris Patten ja:クリストファー・パッテン nl:Chris Patten zh:彭定康 pl:Chris Patten This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Chris Patten".
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