Dido (singer) was born on Christmas Day, she also celebrates an "official birthday" on 25 June, following the example of Paddington Bear. Her mother, Clare (née Collins), is a poet of French ancestry, and her father, William O'Malley Armstrong (1938–2006), was an Irish publisher and former managing director of Sidgwick & Jackson. Her elder brother, Rowland Constantine O'Malley Armstrong, is better known as record producer Rollo, part of the British electronica trio Faithless. Despite their birth names, the pair were known from childhood by the names Dido and Rollo and Dido considers this as her real name, and not simply a stage
Robert Rollo, 4th Lord Rollo active part in the Jacobite rising of 1715. Despite the opposition of the Earl of Mar, Rollo was placed in charge of the Perthshire squadron of the Jacobite army, and fought at the Battle of Sheriffmuir on November 1715, but surrendered to government forces the following February. He was imprisoned at Inverness Castle, then Edinburgh Castle until 1717 when he was pardoned. Lord Rollo died at Duncrub, Perthshire on 8 March 1758 Lord Rollo married on 4 June 1702 Mary Rollo, daughter of Sir Henry Rollo of Woodside and had issue: Balfour Paul, Sir J., "Scots Peerage" IX vols. Edinburgh