Joan Hunter Dunn beauty, he fell in love, and composed a 44-line poem fantasising about them being engaged and playing tennis together in Aldershot: The poem was published in Cyril Connolly's "Horizon" magazine in February 1941. Betjeman invited her to lunch, and presented her with a copy of the magazine containing the poem, begging her forgiveness. In an interview in "The Sunday Times" magazine in 1965, illustrated with photographs by Lord Snowdon, she said: "It was such a marvellous break from the monotony of the war. It really was remarkable the way he imagined it all. Actually, all that about the subaltern, and
Matthias Dunn just a few months after his wife, at Whitecliffe, Caterham, Surrey, where he had moved from Newcastle to be near his daughter. Matthias Dunn Matthias Dunn (bap. 1788, d. 1869), was a mining engineer in northeast England and one of the first government inspectors of mines. He was known for encouraging safe practices in mines. Dunn was baptized at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Birtley, Co. Durham, on 10 December 1788, the son of Robert Dunn (c.1729–1822) and his second wife, Agatha (Agnes), possibly née Hunter (d. 1790). His father was a viewer at Lumley colliery near Chester-le-Street. In 1804,