George Frederick Lott

Son of [John Frederick Lott]. Many years with Davis of Coventry Street. Was an excellent judge of Italian instruments, and a clever imitator. LOTT, John Frederick, London, younger brother of the above, died about 1871. Was articled to Davis, Has made many clever imitations. He was also an ardent lover of Cremonese instruments, and thoroughly understood their characteristics. His career was both chequered and curious, sufficiently so indeed, to cause our eminent novelist, Charles Reade, to make it the subject of ''Jack of All Trades: a Matter-of-Fact Romance." Jack Lott (as he was familiarly styled) therefore shares with Jacob Stainer the honour of having supplied subject-matter for writers of fiction. It must, however, be said that whilst Dr. Schuler's " Jacob Stainer " is mainly pure fiction, "Jack of all Trades" is rightly entitled "a matter-of-fact romance." I have many times heard John Lott relate the chief incidents so graphically described by Charles Reade. He was certainly a man of singular ability, and his talents were strangely varied.