Grimson (musical family)

[1] Samuel Dean Grimson (1841 – 7 April 1922) was a violinist and viola player of orchestral and chamber music.

He played with the Holmes Quartet and was the author of A First Book for the Violin, published in 1881.

A portrait of Grimson with his violin, painted in 1914 by Frank Brooks, is owned by the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain.

[2] All seven of his surviving children (an eighth, Dean, died as an infant) were musicians who were trained by their father and then went on to study at the Royal College of Music.

[3] On January 21, 1896 at the Queen's (small) Hall, Grimson and his seven children performed Mendelssohn's Octet as a family.