Chris Patten
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish politician and colonial administrator (born 1944)
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, is a British politician who was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992, and the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. He was made a life peer in 2005 and served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2024.
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[Nigel Farage] offers nothing for a healthy Conservative future.
"My six-point plan to drag the Tories back from the abyss", The Independent (15 July 2024)
It matters to everyone [sic] of us that the press tell it as it is, not as the government wants us to hear.
Address to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong (May 2020). Rachel Wong, "Ex-Hong Kong governor Chris Patten 'condemned to
[O]n July 1, 1997, Hong Kong became the only example of decolonization deliberately accompanied by less democracy and a weaker protection of civil liberties.
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Amartya SenAlso won honorary doctorate from University of Grenoble-II
José CarrerasAlso won Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania
Michel BarnierAlso won Robert Schuman Medal
Göran PerssonAlso won Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class
Hans-Dietrich GenscherAlso won Honorary doctor of the University of Szczecin
Wolfgang SchäubleAlso won Robert Schuman MedalAbout this person
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, is a British politician who was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992, and the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. He was made a life peer in 2005 and served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2024. He is one of two living former governors of Hong Kong, alongside David Wilson.
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