John Patten, Baron Patten
- John Patten, Baron Patten
John Haggitt Charles Patten, Baron Patten, PC (born July 17, 1945) was a Conservative party Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons. He was raised Roman Catholic, and educated by the Jesuits at Wimbledon College.
He was first elected for Oxford in 1979, transferring to Oxford West and Abingdon in 1983 after boundary changes divided his old seat. He stood down at the 1997 general election, and thus avoided losing his seat, which was won by the Liberal Democrat Evan Harris.
He served as Secretary of State for Education from 1992 to 1994. Patten's record as education secretary has been described as "appalling" by David Hart who retired on 31 August 2005, after 26 years, as general secretary of the NAHT, Britain's largest headteachers' union. [ [http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,1469782,00.html Education Guardian - reference to Hart's analysis of Patten's record] Accessed 6 April 2007]
He was made a life peer as Baron Patten, of Wincanton in the County of Somerset in 1997.
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