Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 17 October 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 17 October 1983

0830

Hair [1 hour]

0930

Media: Mr. Alison, Mr. Sherbourne, Mr. Howe, Mr. Shrimsley, Chairman [John Gummer] + Miss Christopherson [+RC (Robin Catford)]

1000

Chairman [John Gummer], Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1130-1200

Mr. Sherbourne

1200

Chief Whip [John Wakeham] and Lord President [Willie Whitelaw]

1215

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Chairman [John Gummer], Home Secretary [Leon Brittan]

1300

Lunch with colleagues to discuss forthcoming local government legislation [THCR 1/6/3/16 part 1 f11: MT, Whitelaw, Cockfield, Denham, Bellwin, Joseph, Brittan, Jenkin, Biffen, Waldegrave, Wakeham, Gummer, Alison]

1600

Dr. Kurt Ticher, Mrs. and Miss Ticher [via FRB (Robin Butler)]

1730

S/S Education [Sir Keith Joseph] and Chief Secretary [Peter Rees]

1830

Ian Gow, MP

MT Engagement Diary