His father, the British consul in Vigo, died when Dick was 10 and he was despatched to school at Charterhouse, where his talent for drawing was first recognised.
During the War she was sent to a Coptic Convent in Egypt, until in 1949 she and her sisters were despatched to board at Bedford High School, living in a seaside boarding house in school holidays.
Stuart McCall got the response he wanted from his Motherwell side as they despatched Hearts 4-1 at Fir Park.
There was also something of the limpid, unaggressive style of Galli-Curci in her coloratura: she never used the brilliance of her florid technique to impose awareness of herself as prima donna, or if she caught herself doing something of that kind it was at once despatched with a deprecatory flash of humour.
Standing behind a row of police vans and policemen despatched to keep them at bay from prime minister Antonis Samaras' office, the protestors urged the coalition government to "stick to its commitments" and press for the survival of disability benefits in talks with the officials.
I would be despatched to the farm at the edge of the village to get our daily milk.
The Elector, whose relationship with Villars had since collapsed, had initially ignored the advice to repair the decaying defences, but once it was realised that Donauwörth was to be attacked, Count d'Arco, a Piedmontese officer, was despatched from the camp at Dillingen with orders to strengthen and hold the position.
The club whose fault it was was despatched through the air straight at his bag and clattered to the ground.
It tells a suspenseful tale of an Australian journalist despatched to replace a colleague at a dangerous time.
The best dial-up modems despatched data along telephone lines at speeds of up to 56 kilobits per second, although compression could be used to improve this top speed.
