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 [Material from handwritten original of the 1984 appointment diary: keep free, David Barclay & Oliver Letwin]
1045 Left No. 10
1052 Arrived Great West Door [Material from handwritten original of the 1984 appointment diary: +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 [Material from handwritten original of the 1984 appointment diary: 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 [Material from handwritten original of the 1984 appointment diary: 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]
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