Early Years
The son of Major John Norman Biggs-Davison, RGA, (d. 1972), of Somerset, John Alec Biggs-Davison was raised a Roman Catholic and educated at Clifton College, and Magdalen College, Oxford. While at university, he was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
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