Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 15 April 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

Tuesday 15 April 1980

0800

Breakfast [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, John Biffen & John Nott]

0900

Colin Peterson to discuss National Heritage Fund

0930

Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders

0945

Kept free for Scottish Conference speech: Jock Bruce-Gardyne

1030

Sir John Mason, High Commissioner Designate, Canberra [Brief from FCO]

1045

Mr. Graft Johnson, Vice President of Ghana and Mr. Richard Luce and photographer

1100

Meeting of Ministers [via M.A. (Michael Alexander)]

1200

Mr. Nicholas Scott and Officers of Employment Committee + Mr. Prior

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1600

OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]

1700

Secretary of State for Energy [David Howell] [Re: appointment]

1800

Bernard Ingham for British Press Awards

1830-1930

Meeting and drinks with Chief Whip [Michael Jopling] and Whips

Dined at the H/C with Ian Gow

Kept free for British Press Awards

2200

Three Line Whip

[Paired after 2200]

MT Engagement Diary