Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 3 July 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

Thursday 3 July 1980

0830

Hair

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0925

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

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] Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] to discuss meeting he had with Mr. [Antony] Marlow, MP

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Meeting with Edward Du Cann + Ian Gow [re: MPs’ pay - meeting note in THCR 2/6/2/114]

1640

Left No. 10 [Handwritten original has MT departing H/C at 1630]

Drove to Northolt

1715

Took off from Northolt

1830

Landed at Edinburgh (Turnhouse)

Drove to Bute House

1950

Left Bute House

2000

Arrived at Holyrood for

2015

The Queen’s Dinner for The Queen Mother’s 80th Birthday followed by Evening of Music [+DT]

2130

[Reception at Holyrood +DT & CW (Clive Whitmore)]

0045

Arrived Bute House [Overnight stay]

MT Engagement Diary