MT Engagement Diary

Monday 10 December 1984

0830

Hair [Flat – location from handwritten original]

1000

Media

1030

Mr. Thompson of Opinion Research [+BI [Bernard Ingham]]

1100

Sir John Sainsbury and others re planning systems [S/Env [Patrick Jenkin], Ld Young, Mr Trippier]

1200

Deputy Chief Whip [John Cope]

1215

Deputy Chief Whip [John Cope], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] and Chairman [John Selwyn Gummer] +CST [Peter Rees]

1300

Lunch for colleagues

1415

Sir Oliver Wright +CDP [Charles Powell] [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

1430

Keep free for briefing +BI [Bernard Ingham]

1500

Record Christmas messages for hospitals [No. 10 – location from handwritten original] [Robert Wilson interviewer: see 5/2/153]

1600

+BBC Falklands message

1600

Keep free for NHBC speech [& Far East Speech]

1730

MISC 101

1815

King Hussein +CDP [Charles Powell]

1915

Change

1930

Sir Hector Laing [Flat – location from handwritten original]

1945

Dinner for Centre for Policy Studies +DT - No. 10 [Black Tie] [Hugh Thomas, Ron Halstead, James Goldsmith, James Hanson, Stan Clarke, David Wolfson, Michael Blakenham, Nicholas Cayzer, Rocco Forte, Nicholas Goodison, Keith Joseph, Sir Hector Laing, Frank Taylor, Simon Webley, David Young, Nigel Vinson: 6/2/3/15 f27] [Top table guests: The Lord Taylor of Hadfield [Frank Taylor], Sir Nicholas Goodison, Sir David Nicolson, Cyril Taylor, Ian Weston Smith, John James, Sir James Goldsmith: see THCR 6/2/3/15 f26 also for full list of guests] [also Peter Miller, chairman, Lloyds of London: see 6/2/2/102 f10]

Paired all day