Effective period / Period of releases: 1967 - 1980

Members: Adam Skeaping, Roderick Skeaping, Jane Ryan, Catherine Mackintosh, Trevor Jones (4), Nigel North, Kenneth Skeaping, Ian Gammie, Marjorie Lempfert, Marco Pallis, Elizabeth Goble, Richard Nicholson (3), Margaret Donington, Sheila Marshall (3), Robert Donington, Hugh Cherry (2)

The English Consort of Viols was a British chamber music ensemble, established in 1935 by Marco Pallis and Richard Nicholson with a group of former Arnold Dolmetsch students. Focused on mid-XVI to mid-XVIII century and specifically British consort music and viol repertoire, the ensemble gave its debut performance in February 1938 at London's Wigmore Hall. Going through several line-up changes, the English Consort of Viols had a prolific career, touring until the late 1980s and releasing several albums on Turnabout, Saga Records, and other prominent specialist labels.

Original line-up
Marco Pallis — founder, artistic director (1935–1971)
Richard Nicholson — treble viol, alto viol, organ (1935–1971)
Elizabeth Goble — bass viol, harpsichord (1935–1971)
Robert Donington — viol (1935–1939)
Margaret Donington — viol (1935–1939?)

New members (1967–1971)
Roderick Skeaping — treble viol, alto viol (1967–1977)
Kenneth Skeaping — tenor viol
Sheila Marshall, Marjorie Lempfert, Trevor Jones — tenor viol
Adam Skeaping — bass viol, solo division viol
Catherine Mackintosh — treble viol

Final years (after 1977)
Nigel North — lute, tenor viol
Ian Gammie — tenor viol, great bass viol
Jane Ryan — bass viol