According to The Oxford Companion to Music, Robin Humphrey Milford was born in Oxford and died in Lyme Regis aged fifty-six. He was the son of Sir Humphrey Milford, publisher to the Oxford University Press, and studied under Imogen Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams and R.O. Morris, later becoming a schoolmaster. He was a fluent and prolific composer and in an unassuming way an individual one. Besides choral works, such as "A Prophet in the Land" (1930) and "A Pilgrim's Progress" (1932) he wrote much orchestral and chamber music.