Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 26 March 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 26 March 1980

0900

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] + Lord Diplock

0930

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 Robert Armstrong]

1030

Briefing Meeting for Schmidt visit

1200

S/S Energy [David Howell] (to discuss Sir Jack Rampton’s successor)

1230

Sir John Graham - HM Ambassador, Iran

1300

[Lunch - No. 10]

1445

Sir Kenneth Berrill

1530

Budget Statement

1830

Audience

2000

S/S Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] [Home Secretary can’t make it]

Dined at the House of Commons [+Ian Gow]

[PM paired after 2200]

MT Engagement Diary