Joan Hunter Dunn ITV and then for the BBC in Rhodesia. He died of a heart attack in 1963. She returned to their home, in Headley, Hampshire, to raise their three young boys. Despite straitened finances, all three attended Winchester College. She attended the memorial service for Betjeman at Westminster Abbey in 1984. Her letters from Betjeman, contained in a bureau, were stolen in a burglary in 1996. She was survived by her three sons, one of whom continued the family's sporting tradition by representing Cambridge University at both football and cricket. Joan Hunter Dunn Joan Jackson, née Joan Hunter Dunn (13 October
Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms" is a popular song written in 1808 by Irish poet Thomas Moore using a traditional Irish air. Moore's young wife had been stricken with an illness and worried that she would lose her looks. He wrote the words to reassure her. The tune to which Moore set his words is a traditional Irish air, first printed in a London songbook in 1775. It is occasionally wrongly credited to Sir William Davenant, whose older collection of tunes may have been the source for later publishers,