William Addison

John Dilworth

ADDISON (ADDIS), William Worked circa. 1650-1675 Moorfields, London UK. Viols and some violins on Amatisé model with thin golden-yellow varnish. An advertisement in the London Gazette of 1675 reads: ‘Lost Octob. 2. at night, out of a coach, between Billingsgate and Charing Cross, a black case with a new violin in it, made by William Addis in the Strand, this year 1675, with a stockmans bowe in it. Whoever can give notice of it to Mr. Carr at the Middle Temple-gate, shall be well rewarded’. William Addison / in Long Alley / over against Moorfields, 1670

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Ein englischer Violenbauer, der von Sandys u. Forster, die seinen in einer Viola gefundenen Zettel mittheilen, erwähnt wird. Es scheint nicht, dass noch andere Arbeiten von ihm bekannt geworden sind.

William Meredith Morris

It is not certain whether or not he made violins, but he made viols. Label : —

WILLIAM ADDISON, IN LONG ALLEY, OVER AGAINST MOORFIELDS, 1670

Cecie Stainer

A maker of viols in London.