Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 11 December 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 11 December 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

0900

Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] [No.10]

0930

Mr. Norgrove for BREEMA Speech

Working lunch in Flat

1545-1645

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw]

1700

[Handwritten original has a 1700 meeting that is crossed out, indicating probable cancellation. It reads: Meeting of Ministers [TSRB] Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), Ld Chancellor (Lord Hailsham), Mr Biffen, S/Def (Michael Heseltine), Mr Luce, RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) +DN (David Norgrove).]

1800

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] + Mr. Norgrove

1830c

Change

1915

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Norgrove

1925

Arrive Savoy

1930

Annual Dinner of British Radio and Electronic Equipment [Manufacturers’ Association] + Mr. Norgrove - Black Tie, Savoy [Contact: Mr Sutton 130.3206 [DT away]] [See 1/7/9 f8 for programme, including guest list and table plan; Lord Thorneycroft was then the Association’s President. At the top table with him and MT were I.S. Tiefenbrun, R. Williams, J. Whitney, J.T. Griffiths, S. Young, Earl of Gowrie, Lord Chapple of Hoxton, R.E. Norman, Lord Thomson of Monifieth, A.D.G. Milne, A.J.P. Macdonald, O.P. Sutton]

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary