Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 16 January 1985

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/7
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; PREM32/19 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/7 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 16 January 1985

0900

Gordon Jewkes, Civil Commissioner, Port Stanley [+CDP (Charles Powell)]

0930

Mr. Gray + 2 from National Children’s Homes [+DB (David Barclay)]

1015

Meeting of Ministers re NI [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 [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 [+BI (Bernard Ingham)]

1400

Record Woman’s Hour Interview

1430

Depart for No. 10

1500

Senor Oreja, Sec-Gen of Council of Europe [+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 [+DB (David Barclay)]

1935

Arrive Henrietta Place entrance

2000

Dinner: Royal College of Nursing [Annual Dinner] [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”.]

MT Engagement Diary