Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 16 October 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 16 October 1980

0830

Hair

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0915

E Committee [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] followed by Lord Chancellor [Lord Hailsham]

1300

Lunch with Private Secretaries

1430

Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft], Mr. Wolfson and Mr. Gow

1545

Left for Birmingham

2000

Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited Banquet +DT (speech). Response to “Our Guests” by President - Hotel Metropole, Birmingham [D/Industry doing speech]

MT Engagement Diary