Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 9 May 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

Wednesday, 9 May 1984

0900

Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

0930

John Redwood and Andrew Turnbull for briefing meeting on Gas Privatisation

0945

NSPCC Speech Meeting [keep free, David Barclay & Oliver Letwin]

1045

Left No. 10

1052

Arrived Great West Door [+MA (Michael Alison)]

1100

Service of Dedication for Christian Heritage Year + MA [Michael Alison] - Westminster Abbey [Bishop of London, Graham Leonard; Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie] [Procession: Viscount Whitelaw, Simon Hughes, David Owen, Michael Cocks, Councillor J. Layden, Harry Purcell, Sir Campbell Fraser, Lionel (Len) Murray, Sir William Rees-Mogg, Sir Arthur Bryant, G.J. (Geoffrey) Warnock, Mrs S. Hase, Mrs T.M. Yates, Sir Robert Boyd, Sir James Watt, Miss S. Quinn, Dame Cicely Saunders, C. John Naylor, Rev. Humphrey Taylor, Rev. Reginald Harvey, Colonel William Layton, Rev. Dr. Charles Elliott, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse, Deputy Assistant Commissioner H.N. (Hugh) Annesley, Mr and Mrs William Sabin, Thomas and Lucy, Lord Hailsham, Bernard Weatherill, The Lord Mayor of Westminster (John Bull): see THCR 6/2/2/85 f17 also for additional details]

1200

Returned to No. 10

1300

Lunch in flat

1500-1530

S/S DHSS [Norman Fowler] on NSPCC and St. George's Hospital

1630

Meeting of Ministers on Libya [FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), H/S (Leon Brittan), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & Sir A. Duff - No. 10]

1700

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1755

Departed for H/C

1800-1900

Drinks with MPs at H/C [Junior ministers and ministers outside cabinet - John Wakeham, Patrick Mayhew, Grey Gowrie, Malcolm Rifkind, John Stanley, Peter Morrison, Irwin Bellwin, Adam Butler, Alick Buchanan Smith, Peggy Fenner, Chris Patten, Tony Newton, David Mitchell + Michael Alison: 2/6/3/25 part 2 f9]

2000

Lord Bruce-Gardyne for Scottish Conference Speech

Supper H/C + SS [Stephen Sherbourne], MA [Michael Alison]

All night sitting

2130

Meeting of Ministers on Direct Elections to ILEA [timing of Direct Election, S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), S/Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), LPS (John Biffen), Chief Sec (Peter Rees), Chief Whip (John Wakeham), Mr Buckley]

MT Engagement Diary