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
Andrew Hunter Dunn Andrew Hunter Dunn Andrew Hunter Dunn (16 October 1839 – 14 November 1914) was an eminent Anglican priest, the fifth Bishop of Quebec. Dunn was born in Saffron Walden in 1839, son of Hannebal (Hannibal) Dunn and Mary Ann Hunter. His mother was either the daughter or sister of William Hunter, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1852. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he graduated BA as 29th Wrangler in 1863. Ordained in 1864, his first post was a curacy at St Mark's, Notting Hill. In 1870 he became curate, and in 1872 Vicar, of All Saints, South