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) 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 participated in a notable action for which her crew would later be awarded the Naval General Service Medal; her participation in a campaign resulted in the award of another. "Dido" was sold for breaking up in 1817. On 9 August 1793 "Dido" was patrolling off Norway when she encountered a French privateer. She drove the vessel