Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 20 April 1983

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/5
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/17 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/5 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 20 April 1983

0900

Richard Ryder for photo

0915-0945

S/S Education [Sir Keith Joseph] and Mr. Hancock

0945

The Dowager Lady Camoys

1000-1015

Mrs. Anne Wall to hand over cheque for Bone Marrow Research Trust [+ Mr Paley-Phillips & Mr Piller: Gordon Shepherd [illegible]]

1015-1045

Gordon Reece

1045

Depart

1100-1215

Visit to Marks and Spencer, Marble Arch, to promote British goods mean British jobs [&TF (Tim Flesher) & Gordon S(hepherd)]] [Welcome by: Lord Sieff, Mr. Peter Corbett (General Manager, Marble Arch Store), Mrs. Wendy Thompson (Personnel Manager, Marble Arch Store)] [see THCR 6/2/2/63 f128 for program and additional details]

Depart for Christies [Ian Gow to go separately to Christies]

1245

Lunch at Christies +IG [Ian Gow] - 8 King Street [Mr. John Floyd (Chairman), Mr. Guy Hannen (Deputy Chairman), The Hon. Patrick Lindsay (Senior Director and head of the picture department), Mr. Paul Whitfield (Managing Director of King Street), and Mr. Christopher Ponter (head of negotiating department concerning all capital taxes concerned with works of art and negotiation of sales to the nation)] [THCR 6/2/2/63 f28]

1415

Depart

1430

Bryan Cartledge

[To H/C]

1530

E(TP) - H/C

1700

Briefing for Anglo/German bilaterals - H/C

1800

Governor [Gordon Richardson] [sic: ?1500]

To H/C

1800-1830

Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe] - H/C

1900-2000

Look in at Sports Aid Foundation Reception - Les Ambassadeurs [via DT] [Sports Aid Foundation Board of Governors members in attendance: Paul Zetter CBE (Chairman), Mrs. Mary Glen Haig CBE (Vice-Chairman), Robert F. Butlin, David Coleman, Major-General Ian R. Graeme CB OBE, Dick Jeeps CBE, Eddie Kulukundis, Denis Thatcher MBE TD: THCR 6/2/2/63 f169]

Dine H/C +IG [Ian Gow]

2100

Chairman [Cecil Parkinson] - H/C

2200

Colonel Neil Thorne MP - H/C

Paired between 1830 and 2030

MT Engagement Diary