Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 24 July 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 July 1985

0900

Caroline Ryder and Mark Addison to discuss diary matters

0930

Sir Julian Bullard and Mr. Powell

1000

F/C Secretary + Mr. Powell

1030

F/C Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Sir Robert Armstrong, Sir Colin Figures, Mr. Powell (intelligence matters)

1100

Keep free for reading brief + Mr. Addison

1150

Depart No. 10 for 21 Albemarle Street, W.1. + Mr. Addison

1200-1230c

Present certificates to 1985 Royal Institution of Australian Science Scholars [Met by Sir George Porter: see THCR 6/2/2/118 f5 for briefing]

Return to No. 10

Lunch in flat

1400

Mr. Sherbourne for IDU speech

1430

Meeting of Ministers (Endurance. Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], S/S Energy [Peter Walker], S/S Scotland [George Younger], Mr. Gregson, Mr. Manley, Mr. Unwin + Mr. Turnbull)

1525

Depart for House of Commons

1530

Sit in for Popplewell Report Statement

1615

Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] House of Commons

1645

Depart for Westminster Abbey + Mr. Alison

1650

Arrive Great West Door: Met by Dean

1700

Service of Thanksgiving to mark Westminster 400th Anniversary + Mr. Alison [734.8311 Mr [illegible] [DT not going]] [see THCR 6/2/2/118 f49 for programme][DT was asked if he would like to attend too. His reply: “If I can be out of this, I would prefer not, but you must advise”. Caroline Ryder, MT’s diary secretary, was able to get him out of it. THCR 6/2/2/118 f81]

1800