Taylor, Patrick Wall and John Biggs-Davison tabled a motion in the House of Commons deploring the Labour government's decision to cancel the visit to Cape Town by the Royal Yacht Britannia. He subsequently spoke at Essex University, but had to have police protection, while a mob outside demonstrated singing "The Red Flag". In June, he raised the matter of the IRA's London march with the Home Secretary and asked why it had not been banned under the Public Order Act. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago was banned from United Nations bookstalls in Geneva, on the grounds that it was offensive to a member nation, John Biggs-Davison asked James Callaghan, then Foreign Secretary, if he was satisfied that nothing offensive to the United Kingdom was sold at UN headquarters. In November 1974, he was elected Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Northern Ireland Committee. Biggs-Davison criticised an ITV interview with IRA leader Dáithí Ó Conaill the same month. He called for reciprocity over extradition with the Republic. He was one of a number of prominent speakers at the Monday Club two-day Conference in Birmingham in March 1975, the title of which was The Conservative Party and the Crisis in Britain. He was elected National Club Chairman the following May, for a two-year term. Personal life and death In 1948, he married Pamela, daughter of Ralph Hodder-Williams, MC. They had two sons and four daughters: Tom, Harry, Bella, Helena, Lisl and Sara. Biggs-Davison died at a hospital in Taunton, Somerset, on 17 September 1988, aged 70. In the subsequent by-election, his seat was won by Conservative Steven Norris. References See List of Conservative Monday Club publications. Copping, Robert, The Story of The Monday Club - The First Decade, April 1972 (P/B), and The Monday Club - Crisis and After (Foreword by John Biggs-Davison, MP), May 1975, (P/B), both published by the Current Affairs Information Service, Ilford, Essex. Williamson, David, with Patricia Ellis, (editors), Debrett's Distinguished People of Today London, 1988, p. 92, Messina, Anthony M., Race & Party Competition in Britain, Oxford, 1989, p. 138. Heffer, Simon, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell, London, 1998, Faber, David, Speaking for England, London, 2005, p. 325, Publications Biggs-Davison, John, MP, The Uncertain Ally, London, 1957. Biggs-Davison, John, MP, with Jeremy Harwood and the Hon. Jonathan Guinness, Ireland - Our Cuba?, published by the Monday Club, 1970, (P/B). Biggs-Davison, John, MP, The