Dido (singer) name or nickname. As a child, she had to deal with her birth name's ambiguous and unusual nature, which led to her being bullied and even to her pretending to have an ordinary name. As she explains: The name "Dido" derives from the mythical Queen of Carthage. Dido was educated at Thornhill Primary School in Islington, Dallington School, City of London Girls' and Westminster School where she was taught by the contemporary musician and Head of Academic Music, Sinan Savaskan. After she stole a recorder from school at the age of five, her parents enrolled her at the Guildhall School
HMS Dido (1784) Naval General Service Medal with the clasps "Dido 24 June 1795" and "Lowestoffe 24 June 1795". Because "Dido" served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal. "Dido" was sold to break up on 3 April 1817. HMS Dido (1784) HMS "Dido" was one of the twenty-seven "Enterprise" class of 28-gun sixth-rate frigates in service with the Royal Navy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. "Dido" was commissioned in September 1787 under the command of Captain Charles Sandys. She