Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 4 July 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

Monday 4 July 1983

0830

Hair

1000

Media

1030-1115

Mr. Malcolm Fraser

1115

Mr. Letwin via Mr. Mount

1200

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1215

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Home Secretary [Leon Brittan], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen] [S/ T&I (Cecil Parkinson) away]

1300

Lunch with Lord Rothschild to celebrate Marcus Sieff's 70th Birthday +DW [David Wolfson] - Rothschild Bank, St. Swithin's Lane [Lord Sieff, Lord Rothschild, Mr. Evelyn de Rothschild, Sir Hector Laing, Rt Hon James Callaghan, MP, Lord Rayner, Senator Henry Jackson, Mr. Denis Thatcher (though handwritten original notes that DT was away), Lord Lever, Mr. Michael Richardson, Hon David Sieff, Mr. Jack Heinz, Rt Hon Sir Hugh Fraser, MP, Hon Michael Sieff, Mr. David Wolfson, Mr. Walter Schoenfeld, Mr. David Frost, Sir Claus Moser, Mr. David Curtis, Mr. David Susman, Mr. William de Vigier, Mr. Anthony Vice, Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, Mr. Daniel Prenn, Mr. Michael Sacher: see THCR 6/2/2/67 f29 also for additional information about guests and table plan]

1430

Depart

1500

Bishop of Durham and Mr. Catford

1530

Hong Kong unofficials

1700-1800

Interview with George Bull of ‘Director’ magazine

1800-1830

Sir Alfred Sherman

Supper in flat

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary