Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 16 January 1980

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/2
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. Material has been added to this entry from the handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary, accessed at the Cabinet Office prior to transfer to TNA. The full text of that volume can be accessed here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 16 January 1980

Carol left for Australia

1215

Left No. 10 +DT

1230

Lunch at Grocers’ Hall, Princes Street, to accept Honorary Freedom (short speech) [+DT & MP (Mike Pattison) [Mr Cox: 606.3113: Lunch & parking for George & Tec]]

1530

Sir Robert Armstrong and Sir Ian Bancroft [to discuss Sir Kenneth Berrill’s future]

1600

Meeting of Ministers [Afghanistan]

1830

Lord Privy Seal [Sir Ian Gilmour]

2000

Dinner at Unilever House with the Lord Plowden Group [+TL (Tim Lankester) [Sir David Orr, Sir Maurice Hodgson, Sir John Read, Sir Rowland Wright, Mr Peter Baxendale [sic: Baxendell], Chairman of Shell] [Mrs Sheridan 839.9090 x228] [No parking for George & Tec]]

MT Engagement Diary