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
Sir William Rollo around the time of the Battle of Inverlochy; but William Rollo was a royalist. While Rollo was serving in England as captain in General James King's lifeguards in 1644, Montrose's recruited him for service in Scotland. When they reached Carlisle, Rollo and Lord Ogilvie were sent forward for covert reconnaissance. Their report was negative, and so Montrose, with Rollo and Colonel William Sibbald, journeyed north to the Highlands disguised as a groom. Rollo held under Montrose the rank of major, and commanded the left wing at the Battle of Aberdeen. After the action he was sent from Kintore with despatches