Effective period / Period of releases: 1956 - 1982

Members: Roger Smith (3), Ben Cruft, Carl Pini, Ruşen Güneş, Lionel Bentley, William Primrose, Frederick Grinke, Albert Sammons, Keith Cummings, Philip Sainton, Wynn Reeves, Douglas Cameron, John Pennington (4), Harry Waldo Warner, Charles Warwick Evans, Thomas W. Petre, James Levey, Edwin Virgo

The London String Quartet was a string quartet founded in London in 1908 by Charles Warwick Evans (cello), Harry Waldo Warner (viola), Albert Sammons (1st violin) & Thomas W. Petre (2nd violin), which remained one of the leading English chamber groups into the 1930s, and made several well-known recordings. Warwick Evans and William Primrose enhanced its reputation during the 1930s in the United States. In 1958, Warwick Evans passed on the title to the cellist Douglas Cameron, the name at last finding its way back to London. Carl Pini himself led the quartet from 1960 until 1968.