Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 4 August 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

Monday 4 August 1980

Queen Mother’s Birthday

0830

Hair

1000

Media

1015

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft]

1030

E [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, Jim Prior, Sir Keith Joseph, David Howell, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, John Nott, John Biffen]

Lunch in flat

1430

Meeting of Ministers [Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Defence (Francis Pym), Chief Secretary (John Biffen), Sir A. Rawlinson & Sir Frank Cooper]

1630

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

1750

Mr. Victor Goodhew [re his visit to the Virgin Islands]

1800

1922 Executive [Edward Du Cann, Paul Bryan, Charles Morrison, Ian Gow], Cabinet Room

[Paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary