Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 9 January 1984

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/6
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; PREM32/18 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/6 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Monday 9 January 1984

[DT 11-22 Jan. S[ou]th Africa]

0830

Hair

1000

Media

1030

Interview with “Living” magazine [Jackie Highe interviewer] [via BI (Bernard Ingham) according to handwritten original]

1100

Rodrigo Moynihan: portrait painter

1200

Chairman [John Selwyn Gummer] [for “Private chat” according to handwritten original] + Mr. Alison and Mr. Sherbourne

1250

Depart for Royal Society

1300-1430

Lunch with Royal Society + Mr. Barclay, and formal admission ceremony as a Fellow [Sir Andrew Huxley, Sir John Mason, Professor David Smith, Sir Arnold Burgen, Professor Roger Elliott, Sir Alan Muir Wood, Professor Cyril Hilsum, Sir Jack Lewis, Professor John Quayle, Professor Michael Epstein, Lord Adrian, Dr Ronald Keay, Dr Peter Warren, Mr W. M. Malcolm: see 1/7/8 f136 also for biographical details of attendees] [also: Professor C. A. Rogers, Dr R. B. Nicholson, Mrs A. D. Hilliker - see seating plan, THCR 6/2/2/75 f40] [David Attenborough admitted to fellowship in same ceremony] [6/2/2/75 f35]

[No speech] [3/2/131 f89, MT to Sir Andrew Huxley]

Return to No. 10

1630-1730

Robin Catford [for "General chat" at No. 10 according to handwritten original]

1730

Lord Bellwin and S/S Environment [Patrick Jenkin], Mr. Waldegrave and Mr. Gummer [for "pre-meeting discussion" at No. 10 according to handwritten original]

1745

Lord Bellwin and Conservative local authority leaders + Mr. Waldegrave [Irwin Bellwin, Patrick Jenkin, William Waldegrave, John Selwyn Gummer, Michael Alison; Lovill, Patnick, Bowness, Morgan, Parker-Jervis, Spungin, Thomason, Moss, Shirley Porter, Wall] [6/2/3/10 f100]

1850

Depart No. 10 for Imperial War Museum

1900

[Arrive]

1900-2200

Visit to Imperial War Museum +DT, RC [Robin Catford] and Mr. [Ian] Murray [Sir John Grandy: see MT to Grandy, 11 Jan 1984, 3/2/131 f54] [Lady Airey, Odette Hallowes and Linda Kitson (Falklands official war artist), 6/2/2/75 f102] [Lord Gowrie, Alan Borg, Sir Arthur Drew, Roderick Suddaby, Jilly Cooper, Edward Fox, Sir William Deakin, Sir Denis Hamilton, Dr John Rae, Professor David Dilks, Sir Kenneth Robinson, f107] [Robin Catford, f144]

Buffet supper

MT Engagement Diary