It was formed in 1918 and its personnel remained unchanged until August 1927 when Bernard Shore became the violist and Tate Gilder the second violin.
[1] It is best remembered now for a series of pioneering chamber music recordings made for the National Gramophonic Society.
He won the Dove Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London at the age of 17, and became a professor there in 1907.
By 1924 he had written violin pieces and studies, had published editions of the classics and a book of scales.
The Spencer Dyke Quartet, together with various other instrumentalists in ensemble, appeared on many of the recordings, and his position on the committee therefore probably signified the original intention of the founders to employ his musicians for the project.