 Known to many thousands as Grammaticus, his articles appeared for more than 40 years, without missing a week, in the defunct "Weekly News" and the "Sunday Herald" and, after April 1975, in the "New Zealand Herald".Blaiklock's wife Kathleen died in February 1978, which affected him deeply.He continued for a time to lead tour parties overseas, but a few years later became a victim of cancer, and died on 26 October 1983.