Louise Alexandra Virginia Charlotte Patten, Baroness Patten is a British businesswoman and author, who is the wife of the Conservative politician John Patten and the granddaughter of the RMS Titanic Second Officer, Charles Lightoller.
Patten is one of the few women who has held a senior position in British business. She states that "business is still organised for the majority, who are men" and this lifestyle is a major issue for women in business. During her career she has tended to choose companies that are family-friendly and has had a "portfolio career" - multiple part-time jobs at several companies. In 1998 she started as NED of Somerfield, a chain of small supermarkets. She was a non-executive director of Bradford & Bingley when the company failed and was nationalised in 2008. She has remained on the board and is now an NED of UK Asset Resolution, which combines the run-down mortgages of the former Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley. == Novelist ==
Novelist
She is the author of the novels Bad Money, a thriller based in the City of London, However, this claim, reportedly told her by her grandmother Sylvia Lightoller when Patten was ten, goes against multiple witness accounts at the U.S. and U.K. inquiries into the sinking and has been dismissed by Titanic historians due to lack of evidence and corroborating accounts. == References ==