Sunday Dispatch

The Sunday Dispatch was a prominent British newspaper, published between 27 September 1801 and 18 June 1961.

[3] The newspaper was first published as the Weekly Dispatch in 1801, and was owned in the mid-1800s by notable solicitor James Harmer, who served as a model for Jaggers, the Charles Dickens character from Great Expectations.

The new owners then turned it around from bankruptcy and into the biggest selling Sunday newspaper in Britain at the time.

[citation needed] Due to editor Charles Eade's role as Press Liaison officer for Lord Mountbatten during World War II, distribution of the Dispatch was up from 800,000 to over 2 million copies per edition in 1947.

[5] In 1959, Eade and the editor of the Daily Sketch were fired due to a comment from Randolph Churchill that Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, was "pornographer royal" for his ownership of both the Daily Sketch and Sunday Dispatch.