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
Robin Dunn Privy Council, serving until his retirement in 1984. Dunn married Judith Allan Pilcher the daughter of High Court judge Sir Gonne St Clair Pilcher, in 1941; they had three children and divorced in 1995. In 1997 he married Joan Stafford-King-Harman, daughter of Sir Cecil Stafford-King-Harman, Bt. Robin Dunn Sir Robin Horace Walford Dunn, MC, PC (16 January 1918 – 5 March 2014) was a British Army officer and judge. Dunn was born in Trowbridge, the son of an officer in the Royal Field Artillery. He was educated at St Aubyns School, Wellington College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where