Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 30 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 30 January 1984

0830

Hair

1000

Media

1030

Mr. Coles for Hungary speech

1100

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1145

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison]

1150

Arrive Great West Door

1200

Memorial Service for Harrods victims - read lesson - Westminster Abbey [George Thomas, Lord Tonypandy, the Bishop of London (Graham Leonard), Michael Alison]

Return to No. 10

1300

Lunch for colleagues

1400

Mr. David Lange (New Zealand Opposition Leader)

1430

Meeting of Ministers re GCHQ (FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], HS [Leon Brittan], S/S Employment [Tom King], Lord Whitelaw and RTA [Sir Robert Armstrong])

1530

Sir Percy Cradock

1615

Tea with the Hinduja family (constituency)

1700

Keep free to prepare for CPS meeting

1810

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Sherbourne

1830

CPS [Centre for Policy Studies] meeting to discuss Centre's Policy Groups - Hyde Park Hotel [+SS [Stephen Sherbourne] & MA [Michael Alison] according to handwritten original] [Hugh Thomas] [George Urban: see 2/11/3/3 part 2 f4] [transcript 2/11/3/9 ff38-70] [Hugh Thomas, Hugh Seton-Watson, George Urban, Elizabeth Cottrell, Nigel Vinson, Lord Cayzer] [6/2/3/11 f223] [See THCR 6/2/3/11 f218 for list of acceptances from donors, study group members, and special invitations]

Return to No. 10 [“or H/C” according to handwritten original] [Supper in flat or H/C +MA [Michael Alison]]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary