Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 7 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

Thursday 7 August 1980

0830

Hair

0855

[Return to H/C]

0900

Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Governor of the Bank of England [Gordon Richardson]

0925

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

0930

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]

1100

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]

1245

Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Sir Douglas Wass and Sir Robert Armstrong [Meeting for dealing with pay matters]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Arrived Great West Door of Westminster Abbey +IG [Ian Gow]

1600

Memorial Service for Sir Seretse Khama

1715

Egyptian Ambassador

Dined at the House with Ian Gow

2200

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MT Engagement Diary