Wednesday 16 January 1985
0900 Gordon Jewkes, Civil Commissioner, Port Stanley [Material from handwritten original of the 1985 appointment diary: +CDP (Charles Powell).]
0930 Mr. Gray + 2 from National Children’s Homes [Material from handwritten original of the 1985 appointment diary: +DB (David Barclay).]
1015 Meeting of Ministers re NI [Material from handwritten original of the 1985 appointment diary: FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/NI (Douglas Hurd), Sir A. Acland, Mr Goodall, Mr Andrew,
Mr Cartledge +RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) +Sir Philip Woodfield.]
1130 Meeting of Ministers re BNOC and oil prices [Material from handwritten original of the 1985 appointment diary: FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Chancellor [Nigel Lawson], S/Energy
(Peter Walker) +AT (Andrew Turnbull) & CDP (Charles Powell).]
1215 Keep free for briefing
1245 Depart No. 10 +BI [Bernard Ingham]
1315 Lunch at Broadcasting House [Material from handwritten original of the 1985 appointment diary: +BI (Bernard Ingham).]
1400 Record Woman’s Hour Interview
1430 Depart for No. 10
1500 Senor Oreja, Sec-Gen of Council of Europe [Material from handwritten original of the 1985 appointment diary: +CDP (Charles Powell) - No.10.]
1530 onwards DB [David Barclay] and DW [David Wolfson] for Royal College of Nursing speech
1700 Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
1915 Depart No. 10 [Material from handwritten original of the 1985 appointment diary: +DB (David Barclay).]
1935 Arrive Henrietta Place entrance
2000 Dinner: Royal College of Nursing [Annual Dinner] [Material from handwritten original of the 1985 appointment diary: Short speech +DB (David Barclay) - 20 Cavendish Sq.]
[See THCR 6-2-2-100 101 for programme, background note on the Royal College, biographical notes on principal officers of the RCN (Sheila Quinn, president; Mary Laurence,
deputy president; Ian Hargreaves, chairman of council; June Clark, vice chairman of council; Trevor Clay, general secretary) and certain guests (Lord Mayor of Westminster
(Councillor John Bull); Earl of Eglinton and Winton (Archibald Montgomerie); Roy Griffiths; Dr Harry Judge), and the guest list.]
2140 Depart for H/C
2200 3 Line Vote
Paired after 2200 [Handwritten original says, “PM paired all day”.]
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