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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS PATTEN
Known as
Date of Birth
Present Appointment
Marital
Status
:
Chris
12 May 1944
Governor-designate, Hong Kong
Married 1971:
(Mary Lavender £t Leger Thornton)
3 daughters
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Educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing; Balliol College, Oxford (Domus Exhibitioner, BA Hons Modern History); Travelling Scholarship to the USA in 1965
Joined Conservative Research Department specialising in home affairs
Seconded to the Cabinet Office
1966
1970-72 1972 1972-74
Home Office
1974
1976
1979-92
1979-81
Mar-Sept 1981
1981-88
1982-83
1982-83
1983
1985
1988
1989
1989 1990-92
and won
Personal Assistant to Lord Carrington and Lord Whitelaw when they were Chairmen of the
Conservative Party.
Director of the Conservative Research Department Adopted as prospective Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Bath
Elected as Member of Parliament for Bath Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Leader of the House of Commons, and Minister for the Arts
(Mr Norman St John Stevas MP)
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr Patrick Jenkin MP)
Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Finance Committee
Member of the House of Commons Select Committee on Defence
Member of the Select Committee on Procedure
(Finance)
Published "The Tory Case", a study of
Conservatism
Minister of State, Department of Education and Science
Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Appointed to the Privy Council
Secretary of State for the Environment
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and
Chairman of the Conservative Party
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