RT. HON. C.F. PATTEN
He was
Christopher (Francis) Patten was born in 1944. 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 was
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. 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 Conservativo Research Department, a post which he held until 1979.
Mr. Patten 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), and from March to September 1981 Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Patrick Jenkin MP).
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