Artistes of the Month
Lord Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten was born in 1944. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History and was elected a Domus Exhibitioner. In 1965 he won a Coolidge Travelling Scholarship to the USA.
Professor Alan Barrell
Following a scientific training and six years working in the hospital laboratory service, Alan Barrell has spent almost thirty years in senior executive positions in technology based industries.
Nick Ross
Brought up in London, then read psychology at Queen's University Belfast. (The Nobel-laureate Seamus Heaney was among his teachers and the youngest MP Bernadette Devlin was among his contemporaries.)
He became involved in student politics, won the largest popular vote in the student union's history, and became a member of the students' union executive at a time when tensions were building in the province and the student movement was at the centre of events. He was deputy president of the union when the troubles broke out in earnest, and remained in Northern Ireland for seven years.
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