His parents were traditional Greenlanders who despatched him to Denmark as a boy to acquire European polish; like many a colonial sent to the metropolis, the experience made him a nationalist.
Was Argentina dissuaded from launching an earlier invasion of the islands, in 1977, by Margaret Thatcher's less bellicose but militarily shrewder predecessor, Jim Callaghan, who despatched a submarine to the south Atlantic as a deterrent?
O'Brien then inexplicably gifted possession to Sow, who despatched the ball with ease past Jamieson.
A bit like Cluedo for the undead, the app lets you predict how many zombies will bite the dust during each episode, who will despatch them, and the most common weapon of choice.
Its account of the neuroses and self-loathing of a sexually confused would-be fascist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) aching to fit in in 1938 Rome, who is despatched to Paris to murder his anti-fascist former college professor, was deemed an instant classic on release.
The president said China had promised to assist in the search for the girls - and he also thanked the US, UK and France who have despatched teams of experts to Nigeria.
Pat retaliates by staging a siege at the office party, taking hostages and refusing to negotiate with anyone save Partridge, who is duly despatched by the police.
Those mentioned in despatches – who, entre nous, sound pretty upper-class to begin with – are Samantha Cameron, apparently a distant connection of Charles II's mistress Nell Gwyn, and the Mayor of London, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who is a direct descendant of George II.
The island was rediscovered and named Ducie Island on 16 March 1791 by Captain Edward Edwards, of, who had been despatched from Britain in 1790 to arrest the Bounty mutineers.
The "gormless" leader of the house, "who stands at the despatch box like some tranquillised ungulate, his jaw slowly rotating as he produces a plop-plop-plop of prosaic sludge".
