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
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