Monday 12 November 1984
0830
Hair [Flat – location from handwritten original]
1000
Keep free for speech
1200
Deputy Chief Whip [John Cope]
1215
Deputy Chief Whip [John Cope], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen] and Chairman [John Selwyn Gummer]
Lunch: work on speech [Flat – location from handwritten original]
1520
Depart No. 10
1530
Chancellor's Autumn Statement [Nigel Lawson] - H/C
1630
Return to No. 10
Work on speech
1830
Depart +DT
1846
Arrive Guildhall: Met by Mr. John Henderson, Deputy Lord Mayor
1855
Received by Lord Mayor [Sir Alan Towers Traill]
1900
Lord Mayor's [Sir Alan Towers Traill] Banquet +DT [Evening Dress & Decorations]
[Sir Peter Middleton, Peter Brooke, Sir Michael Havers, Sir Nicholas Goodison, Sir Roy Strong; and seated at top table: John Swan, Ambassador for Spain, Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane, Ambassador for Brazil, Col. & Alderman Sir R. Gardner-Thorpe, High Commissioner of Jamaica, Cdr. And Alderman Sir Robin Gillett, Alderman Sir Edward Howard, Viscount Dunrossil, Alderman Sir Peter Gadsden, Ambassador for the Netherlands, Alderman Sir Christopher Leaver, Ambassador for Mexico, High Commissioner for Papua New Guinea, High Commissioner of Singapore, Alderman and Sheriff David Rowe-Ham, H.M. Lord Lieutenant for Greater London, Ambassador for Qatar, Earl of Selborne, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lady Elspeth Howe, The Lord Chamberlain (Lord Charles Maclean), High Commissioner of Swaziland, Bernard Weatherill, Lord Hailsham, Mary Hogg, Sir John Donaldson, The Late Lord Mayor, The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor (Sir Alan Towers Traill), Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, Willie Whitelaw, Ambassador for Soviet Socialist Republic, John Biffen, Ambassador for Pakistan, Leon Brittan, Colonel, Alderman & Sheriff Creville Spratt, Earl of Avon, President of the Family Division (Sir John Arnold): see 6/2/2/94 f147 also for seating plan, order of procession out of the Old Library, and full list of official guests]
[Attended party at Mansion House after the banquet on invitation of the Lord Mayor. MT to Lord Mayor, 13 Nov 1984, 6/2/2/94 f143; "We stayed far later than I had intended, but it was very relaxing and we both greatly enjoyed it"]
Paired all day
