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Chris Patten
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lord Patten of Barnes, Christopher Patten, Christopher Francis Patten, Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes
British politician and colonial administrator (born 1944)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1944
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Hong Kong : Transition
- Hong Kong : A Thousand days and beyond
- Letters to Hong Kong
- Enhancing Europe's partnerships with Asia
- Respect for the earth
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United Kingdom
Discography
- GLAQJO XAACSSO2011
- EOLIAN INSTATE2013
- ESTOILE NAIANT2014
- Ship of Theseus (Vol II): Side A2014
- Ψ2016
- Requiem2017
- FLEX2019
- Glow2020
- Aegis2020
- Desire Path2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9
- Total plays
- 28
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,630x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,729x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,383x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,017x
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Quotes
- “at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.”
- “In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.”
- “There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.”
- “[M]y anxiety is not that this community's autonomy would be usurped by Beijing, but that it could be given away bit by bit by some people in Hong Kong.”
- “As governor, I experienced the vitality of life in a booming and free Asian city, saw routinely the best and worst aspects of human nature, and was made to revisit some of the principles in which I have always believed but to which I had rarely given much thought previously. In the darker hours of occasionally fretful nights I found myself face to face with the moral dimensions of political action to a greater extent than ever before.”
- “No other place has quite the same blend of East and West, ancient and modern, spectacular and humdrum.”
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Key facts
- Vice chancellor
- Sir Colin Lucas Sir John Hood Andrew D. Hamilton Louise Richardson Irene Tracey
- Preceded by
- Roy Jenkins
- Succeeded by
- William Hague
- Nominated by
- Tony Blair
- President
- Romano Prodi José Manuel Barroso
- Monarch
- Elizabeth II
- Chief secretary
- Sir David Ford Anson Chan
- Leader
- John Major
- Prime minister
- John Major
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- Official portrait of Lord Patten of Barnes crop 2.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1944-05-12
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Article
Chairman of the BBC Trust In office 1 May 2011 – 6 May 2014 Preceded bySir Michael Lyons Succeeded byDiane Coyle (acting) Rona Fairhead, Baroness Fairhead
Personal details BornChristopher Francis Patten (1944-05-12) 12 May 1944 82) Cleveleys, Lancashire, England