Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 23 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 23 October 1980

0830

Hair

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1000

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]

1300

Lunch with Private Secretaries

1550

Irish Ambassador

1600-1700

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

1700

Brigadier Cowen of GHF

1915

Drinks in the flat with Tilneys and Wolfsons

2020

Left No. 10.

2030

Arrive London Palladium

2040

Ken Dodd [Visit to London Palladium to see Ken Dodd +DT. To be met by Mr Avery, Director of Administration]

Afterwards, backstage

Supper in flat with Tilneys and Wolfsons [Informal]

MT Engagement Diary