Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 18 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 18 December 1985

0900

Meeting of Ministers [Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank -Foreign Office, Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Governor of the Bank of England [Robin Leigh-Pemberton], Sir P. Cradock + Mr. Powell]

1045

Emma Nicholson + Mr. Sherbourne [No.10] [2/6/3/180 part 1 f3 for background & agenda; no record of meeting]

1100

MISC 122 [Teachers’ pay] + Mr. Norgrove [No.10]

1200

Messrs Wicks, Powell and Mrs. Ryder to discuss PM’s holiday

1230

Accept turkey from British Turkey Federation + Mrs. Ryder, White Drawing Room,

Lunch in Garden Rooms [No DT]

1415

Peter Thurnham MP, + adopted son Stephen and British Agencies for adoption and fostering + Messrs Alison and Christine Wall and photographer

1430

E(A) + Messrs Norgrove and Addison

1530c

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] and Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1615

Meeting of Ministers [Fraud - Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Leon Brittan], Solicitor General [Sir Patrick Mayhew], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Lord Chancellor [Lord Hailsham], Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Home Secretary [Douglas Hurd], Mr. Unwin and Mr. Norgrove] [Handwritten original also lists L. Pres.]

1700

[FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe) +CDP (Charles Powell) - No.10]

1720-2000

Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Leon Brittan], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Sir Robert Armstrong, Messrs Wicks, Powell and Alison [Handwritten original has MT meeting with Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson) +DN (David Norgrove) at 1730.]

2005

Look in at Whips’ Party + Mr. Alison, No. 12 [Handwritten original has this at c1800 and “Look in at Cabinet Office’s Christmas Party +MA (Michael Alison) - 32 Smith Sq” at 1830.]

2030

Return to No. 10

Supper in Flat

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary