Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 15 May 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 15 May 1985

0700

Early morning rehearsal

0900-1000

Lord Aberdare + Minister for Sport, Mr. Giles Shaw, Mr. Addison (Football Hooliganism and Bradford Fire)

1000-1045

Diary meeting

1115-1145

Sir Russell Fairgrieve + Mr. Addison (1986 Commonwealth Games) [Handwritten original suggests Michael Alison (MA), not Mark Addison (MEA), was at this meeting.]

1200

Talks

1300

Lunch for President of Cameroons [Paul Biya] [[DT away] - No.10] [see 1/17/127 f15 for guests and table plan: guests at MT's table were Biya, Lynda Chalker, Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo, the Rt Reverend John Tinsley, Mrs Dolling, Lord Kindersley and the Ambassador of Cameroon]

1445

President of Cameroons Departs

1600

E(A)

1700

Meeting of Ministers (Review Body Reports. S/S Social Services [Norman Fowler]; S/S Defence [Michael Heseltine]; S/S Education [Sir Keith Joseph]; S/S Scotland [George Younger]; S/S Employment [Tom King]; Chancellor [Nigel Lawson]; Sir Robert Armstrong; Mr. Gregson; Mr. Wiggins; Mr. Turnbull)

1815 c

Change

1830-2000

Reception to commemorate ‘Export Day’ [No.10] [A.P. Bamford to MT, 17 May 1985: THCR 1/3/16 f24. “I was very pleased to have had the opportunity of having a discussion with you on Wednesday evening regarding unfair Japanese practices” – dumping] [Sir Neville Bowman-Trotter to MT, 16 May 1985 f28]

1845

Meet HRH the Duke of Kent at Front Door + Mr. Butler

2000 c

To House of Commons

Supper + Mr. Alison

2200

TWO LINE WHIP

PAIRED AFTER 2200

MT Engagement Diary