Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 12 December 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 12 December 1984

0800

Hair [Flat – location from handwritten original]

0900

Mr. Joe Clark: Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs

0930

Mr. Barclay for NHBC speech [National House Building Council]

0945

Mr. Powell for Far East speeches [+Sir Percy Cradock]

1100

Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1130

MISC 109

1250

Depart No. 10

1300

Lunch with National House Building Council (speech) - Inn on the Park [Sir Peter Trench, A.W. Tait, Ian Gow, Lord Matthews, Frank Taylor, Sir Nigel Broackes, Sir George Young, Sir Hugh Rossi; David Barclay: 6/2/2/98 f3] [Guests at MT’s table: Sir Peter Trench (Chairman NHBC), Mr A.W. Tait, Mr G.C. Pye, Mr H.R. Walden, Mr. R Waterhouse, Mr C.S. Shepherd, Mr J.G. McLean, Mr J Butterworth, Mr A.R. MacMillan, Mr R.W. Hamilton, Lord Broxbourne: see THCR 5/1/5/287 f38 also for full list of guests]

1430

Return to No. 10

1450

Accept flowers from Greek children [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

1500

To H/C

1515

Chairman of Aviation Committee - H/C [& officers +MA [Michael Alison] & CDP [Charles Powell]]

1545-1600

Mr. Peter Morrison (YTS trainee at No. 10) - H/C

1600-1800

Briefing meeting for China and Washington visit - H/C

1800-1830

Sir Alan Walters - H/C

1900

Charles Douglas Home - H/C

1915

Depart H/C

1930-2000

Look in at Chipman Dinner for DT [his retirement as chairman of the company – Ed. note] - Pompeii Room, London Hilton [Peter Allen, George Wilson, Bill Skinner, Donald Davison, Roy Jennings, Charles Stitt, Brian Elliott, David Knight: 6/2/2/98 f213]

Return to H/C for supper [+MA [Michael Alison]]

MT Engagement Diary