Joan Hunter Dunn the engagement is sheer fantasy, but my life was very like the poem." She married Harold Wycliffe Jackson, a civil servant in the Ministry of Information, in January 1945, at St Mark's Church in Farnborough. Betjeman was invited, but was unable to attend. The poem was republished in Betjeman's book "New Bats in Old Belfries" in 1945, and was later mentioned in Flanders and Swann's "Tried by Centre Court". Joan Jackson accompanied her husband to Malaya after the war, where he ran a radio station. They then lived in Singapore, before returning to the UK in 1957. Harold worked for
Theophilus Dunn Dunn. Reputedly, he sold charms to cure toothache, priced at 1 shilling, consisting of a supposed dialogue between Jesus and St Peter, written on a piece of paper, in which the apostle is cured of his painful teeth by faith. He was found dead at his home on 9 October 1851, apparently after taking his own life, the official verdict of the subsequent inquest being "Insanity". His death was reported in many British newspapers, some published as far away from his home region as John o'Groats, Scotland. Theophilus Dunn's grave is in the churchyard of St Andrews', Netherton. Theophilus Dunn