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SUMMARY:A conversation with... The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes CH
DESCRIPTION:Recording now available\nWatch the recording\n\nChristopher F
 rancis Patten was born in 1944\, educated in London and at Balliol Colle
 ge\, Oxford where he read modern history. After a scholarship in America
 \, he worked in the Cabinet Office and the Conservative Research Departm
 ent where he became the Director under Margaret Thatcher.\n\nHe became M
 P for Bath in 1979 and held several Ministerial posts\, becoming Secreta
 ry of State for the Environment in 1989 and Chairman of the Conservative
  Party in 1990.\n\nLord Patten was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 19
 97\, overseeing the return of The Territory to China. He was Chairman of
  the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland set up unde
 r the Good Friday Peace Agreement from 1998 to 1999.\n\nLord Patten was 
 appointed European Commissioner for External Relations in 1999 and held 
 this post until November 2004. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in
  1998 and became a member of the House of Lords in 2005. He became a Com
 mandeur of the Legion d’Honneur in 2016.\n\nLord Patten was Chairman of 
 the BBC Trust\, the strategic authority for the broadcaster\, from 2011 
 to 2014.\n\nHe helped to co-ordinate the visit of Pope Benedict to the U
 nited Kingdom in 2010 and became Chairman of the Vatican Media Advisory 
 Committee for Pope Francis in 2014.\n\nHe holds a number of Honorary Deg
 rees\, was Chancellor of Newcastle University from 1999 until 2008\, and
  was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 2003. He chaired 
 the International Crisis Group from 2004 to 2011 and became Co-Chair of 
 UK-India Round Table in 2006 until 2014.\n\nLord Patten has written a nu
 mber of books – The Tory Case (1982)\, East and West (1998)\, Not Quite 
 The Diplomat (2005)\,What Next?: Surviving the 21st Century (2008) andFi
 rst Confession (2017).\n\nLord Patten married Lavender Thornton\, a lawy
 er\, in 1971. They have three daughters\, Kate\, Laura and Alice and eig
 ht grand-children.\n\nAll sessions are being recorded\, unless otherwise
  stated.\n
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