MT Engagement Diary

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	THCR6/1/2/2
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room at some point following MT’s resignation. The original remained in the custody of the Cabinet Office. Material has been added to this entry from the handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary, accessed at the Cabinet Office prior to transfer to TNA. The full text of that volume can be accessed here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 23 October 1980

0830   Hair
0900   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
1000   Cabinet [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, Francis Pym, Lord Soames, Jim Prior, Sir Ian Gilmour, Peter
              Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Humphrey Atkins, Patrick Jenkin, Norman St John-Stevas, John Nott, David Howell, Mark
              Carlisle, John Biffen, Angus Maude, Norman Fowler, Michael Jopling, Sir Robert Armstrong]
1300   Lunch with Private Secretaries
1550   Irish Ambassador
1600-1700   OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]
1700   Brigadier Cowen of GHF
1915   Drinks in the flat with Tilneys and Wolfsons
2020   Left No. 10.
2030   Arrive London Palladium
2040   Ken Dodd [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Visit to London Palladium to see Ken Dodd +DT. To be met by Mr Avery,
              Director of Administration.]
              Afterwards, backstage
              Supper in flat with Tilneys and Wolfsons [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Informal.]

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