Mary Lavender St. Leger PATTEN (née THORNTON, aka Lady Patten) [1944- ]
Wife of the last governor of Hong Kong (1992-1997), Christopher Francis Patten, now Baron Patten of Barnes, Lavender Patten gave up her career as a family law barrister to accompany and support her husband in Hong Kong. After reading first classics, then law at St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford she was called to the bar in 1969. She currently works for MiD Mediation and Counselling in Twickenham, West London. She is also Patron of the Society for Support of Sick Newborn and Parents.