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Lavender Thornton
Lavender Patten, Baroness Patten of Barnes (; b. 19 September 1944) is the wife of Chris Patten. From 1992 to 1997 she was the final British "First Lady" of Hong Kong. During her time in Hong Kong, she patronized 67 charities and organizations. She was the author of ''Hong Kong Journal'' in 1997. Early life and education Mary Lavender St. Leger Thornton was the third child of father Major John St. Leger Thornton (1911-1944), who was killed in action one month before she was born, and mother Joan Coulton Walker Smith (1907-1961), editor of ''The Builder'' magazine. Lavender was christened by the Bishop of Ripon at Ripon Cathedral. Her mother remarried in 1949. She had two older brothers, one step-brother and one step-sister. She attended Roedean School from 1955 to 1961. When Lavender was 16 her mother died in a car crash. Soon afterward her stepfamily moved to South Africa, leaving Lavender in England. She went on to develop a close relationship with the cartographer, Phyllis P ...
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The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific Style (form of address), style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire, and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the Grammatical person, third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is ...
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