CURRICULUM VITAE
MR C F PATTEN
Christopher (Francis) Patten was born in 1944. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing; Balliol College, Oxford (Domus Exhibitioner, BA Hons Modern History) and won
a Coolidge Travelling Scholarship to the USA in 1965.
He is married and has three daughters.
He was the director of the Conservative Research Department
from 1974 to 1979.
Mr Patten joined the Conservative Research Department in
1966, specialising in home affairs. From 1970 to 1972 he was seconded to the Cabinet Office, working on the co-ordination of social policy and in 1972 he joined the Home Office to set up the Voluntary Service Unit. He was
personal assistant and political secretary to Lord Carrington and Lord Whitelaw when they were chairmen of
the party from 1972-74. In 1974 he was appointed the
youngest ever Director of the Conservative Research
Department.
He contested Lambeth Central in the General Election of
October 1974. He was adopted as prospective Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Bath in December 1976 and was elected as Member of Parliament for that constituency for May 1979 until April 1992. From November 1979 to January 1981 Mr Patten was 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).
From March to September 1981 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Social Services
(Mr Patrick Jenkin MP).
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