Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 24 April 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 24 April 1985

0900

Mr. Addison for Ismaili Centre speech

0950

Governor of Hong Kong +FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Sir Percy Cradock, David Wilson and CDP [Charles Powell]

1030

Depart No. 10 [+MEA (Mark Addison)]

1050

[Arrive]

1100

Open Ismaili Centre, South Kensington

1150

Depart for No. 10

1215

Talks

1300

Lunch for Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea [(DT away)] [David Attenborough a guest – see 1/3/16 f91] [DT away – engagement card in 1/7/41 f20]

1445

Prime Minister departs

1500

Home Secretary [Leon Brittan] re Peacock Committee [+RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) +FERB (Robin Butler)]

1530

[SS (Stephen Sherbourne)< MEA (Mark Addison) & MA (Michael Alison) re Wales Tour & Courtaulds Meeting]

1600

S/S En +FERB [Robin Butler] re Honours

1640

S/S Social Services [Norman Fowler] re Social Services Review [Meeting of Ministers [Social Services Review] Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), Ld Pres (Willie Whitelaw) & S/HSS (Norman Fowler)] [Handwritten original gives time as 1630.] [1630 on engagement card, with Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord President, SS HSS 1/7/41 f21]

1700

OD(I)

1925

Depart No. 10 [+MA (Michael Alison)]

1945

Dinner with “92 Group” - St. Stephens [[via George Gardiner] Informal +MA (Michael Alison)]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary