Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Sat 24 March 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

Saturday 24 March 1984

0800-0830

[Hair - No. 10]

0900

Depart No. 10 +DT, MA [Michael Alison], SS [Stephen Sherbourne] [John Holmes, Tessa Gaisman, Rosemary Meadowcroft, John Wakeham also: see 2/10/32 f25]

1105

Arrive Birmingham Metropole Hotel [Work on speech: see 2/10/32 f25]

1200

Address Central Council [Platform: Joan Seccombe, Patrick Lawrence, Sir Basil Feldman, Colonel Sir Alastair Graesser, Sir Russell Sanderson, Dame Pamela Hunter (chairman), John Selwyn Gummer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson, Sir Henry Plumb, John Wakeham, John Taylor, Donald Maclean, Alma Hill, Lord McAlpine, Councillor Mrs M. Harris, Alan Smith, DT, Michael Alison, Edward du Cann, Lynda Chalker, Iain Mills, Sir Oulton Wade, Councillor Neville Bosworth, Sir Peter Lane, Tom Arnold, David Hunt, Sir Anthony Garner, Michael Price, Emma Nicholson, Lord Fanshawe, Lord Marshall, Michael Culverwell, Councillor R.K. Meacham; Reserved seats in front row: Mrs Gummer, Lady Graesser, Mr Hunter, Lady Sanderson, Lady Feldman, Mrs Lawrence, Mr Seccombe, Lady Plumb, and wives of Party Officers: see THCR 2/10/32 f33]

1245-1305

Mr. C. [Christopher] Tugendhat

1315

Lunch [with National Union Executive - Lancaster Room, Hotel Metropole, + DT, Michael Alison, Stephen Sherbourne: see 2/10/32 f25] [John Selwyn Gummer; Sir Russell Sanderson, Dame Pamela Hunter, Sir Alastair Graesser, Sir Basil Feldman, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson, Sir Henry Plumb, John Wakeham, Joan Seccombe: 2/10/32]

1430

Depart for Chequers

1800

Meeting to discuss Jordan (FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], S/Defence [Michael Heseltine], Maj. Gen. de la Billière, Sir Antony Duff, Sir Philip Moore,

Mr. Richard Luce, Mr. C. Smith, RTA [Sir Robert Armstrong], FERB [Robin Butler], Mr. Robert Fellowes, Sir John Leahy)

2115

Dinner with above

2215

Guests depart +DT

MT Engagement Diary