[1] Grove has it that her sister Fanny, a piano teacher, married into the Loder family, which was prominent in Bath's musical community.

However, genealogical research suggests that this was in fact Frances Elizabeth Mary Kirkham, step-daughter of Lucy's sister, Jane Harriet Philpot, who became the wife of flautist George Loder, the brother of violinist John David Loder.

In 1830, Johann Nepomuk Hummel composed a "Grand Military Septet" in C major, Op.

[13] In 1837 the publisher Alfred Novello gave Lucy Anderson exclusive rights for six months to play Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No.

This was a condition of an interest-free loan of £30 from her husband, the money being needed by Novello to publish the concerto.