Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 16 September 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 16 September 1980

0800-0930

Breakfast meeting [Old team. Informal. NB extra half hour] [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, John Biffen & John Nott]

1000

Talks with Prime Minister of Bahrain [First 15 mins Tete a Tete]

1115

Mr. Chaudhuri [Indian Minister for Energy & Coal] and S/S Trade [John Nott]

1145

[Depart No. 10 +CAW (Clive Whitmore)]

1200

Lord Armstrong’s Memorial Service - St Margaret’s Westminster [+CAW (Clive Whitmore)]

1300

Jock Bruce-Gardyne for lunch and Conference speech + Sir Ronnie Millar and John Hoskyns

1500

Sir Frederick Dainton [Mrs Routledge 580.2442]

1530

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]

1600

Interview with three Provincial women editors [+BI (Bernard Ingham)]

1700

[Visit Sir Derek Rayner’s exhibition of Forms - Old Admiralty Building +MP (Mike Pattison)]

1745

Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Chief Secretary [John Biffen], S/S Industry [Sir Keith Joseph], Minister of Transport [Norman Fowler] and M/S Industry [Adam Butler] and Sir R. Armstrong

2000 for 2015

Dinner for the Prime Minister of Bahrain +DT - No. 10 [Black Tie]

MT Engagement Diary