Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 26 February 1986

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/8
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; PREM32/20, covering 1986, can be read here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 26 February 1986

0900

Chairman [Norman Tebbit] + Mr. Alison Mr. Alison [Michael Alison]

0935

Keep free for Messrs Ingham [Bernard Ingham], Wicks [Nigel Wicks], Norgrove [David Norgrove] and Flesher [Tim Flesher]

1015

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Ingham

1030-1235

Jimmy Young Show + Mr. Ingham [Jimmy Young]

1235

Return to No. 10

1300

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Norgrove

Lunch with Unquoted Companies Group with Sir Emmanuel Kaye and Mr. Norgrove, 25 St. James's Place [Anthony Bamford, John Crisp, John Fenwick, Malcolm McAlpine, Alexander Macmillan, Ian Norton, David Owen (Rubery Owen Holdings Ltd), Evelyn de Rothschild, John Swire, Michael Worley: THCR 6/2/2/134 f124]

1450

Return to No. 10

1500

Keep free for Irish Bishops [Dr Robin Eames (Archbishop of Armagh), Dr Donald Caird (Archbishop of Dublin), Samuel Poyntz (Bishop of Cork), Gordon McMullen (Bishop of Clogher), Jim Mehaffey (Bishop of Derry and Raphoe), William McCappin (Bishop of Connor), Walter Empey (Bishop of Meath), J.L.B. Deane and Bristow Stevenson (Hon Secretaries of the Standing Commission of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland: see Northern Ireland Office briefing, 24 Feb 1986 PREM19/1811 f91] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1625

Meeting of Ministers [Tin: Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Solicitor General [Sir Patrick Mayhew], Mr. Gardner, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Paul Channon], Dep. BoEng. [Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir George Blunden], Mr. C. Farrow [Bank of England], Messrs. Robin Mountfield and Murray (DTI) and P. Mountfield (Treasury), R.K. Gardner (Law Officers’ Department) and Mr. Norgrove] [list corrected from No.10 conversation record, 26 Feb 1986, PREM19/1985 f187]

1700

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

1745

Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1815

Secretary of State for Transport [Nick Ridley] + Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1900-1930

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] + Messrs Wicks and Flesher [Legislative programme] [Tim Flesher]

Supper in Flat

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary