Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 30 August 1979

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/1
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room at some point following MT’s resignation. The original remained in the custody of the Cabinet Office. The text differs in places from a second MS text of the diary at THCR 6/1/1/30, which probably derived from MT’s office at the House of Commons: elements from that second document have been added to this online version where they add material of substance (and explicitly noted as such).
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 30 August 1979

0900

Sir Geoffrey Howe

1005

Media briefing

1030

Cabinet [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, Francis Pym, Lord Soames, Jim Prior, Sir Ian Gilmour, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Humphrey Atkins, Patrick Jenkin, Norman St John-Stevas, John Nott, David Howell, Mark Carlisle, John Biffen, Angus Maude, Norman Fowler, Michael Jopling, Sir John Hunt]

1415

Bryan Cartledge to say goodbye

1430

Meeting to discuss Party Conference engagements

1515

John Hoskyns

1545

Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] and Defence [Francis Pym]

1600

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] and Security Chiefs

1700

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Lord Carrington]

1730

Looked in at Bryan Cartledge’s farewell party

1920

Left No. 10 for Northolt

2000

Took off from Northolt

2040

Landed Manchester Airport

Drove to Excelsior Hotel

MT Engagement Diary