10 June

Robert Still was born on 10 June.

Robert Still (10 June, 1910–13 January, 1971) was an English composer, educator and amateur tennis player. Robert Still was born in London on 10 June 1910. He was a direct descendent of the Elizabethan Bishop of Bath and Wells John Still, once thought to be the author of the farce Gammer Gurton's Needle, and of Peter Still, solicitor to George III.

He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained the degrees of BA, MA, and BMus. He studied under C. H. Kitson, Basil Allchin and Gordon Jacob. Later in life he studied with Hans Keller. At Eton and Oxford he developed an interest in racquet games, winning a Blue and in later life playing real tennis for the Marylebone Cricket Club.

After Oxford, he returned to Eton to teach music, leaving there in 1938 to become conductor and arranger of the Ballet Trois Arts, a travelling company. By this time he had written a few songs and a light opera, Love and Learning, for the Windsor Operatic Society. He had been their conductor whilst teaching at Eton.

Still's War was spent first manning a searchlight in the Cotswolds and then with the Royal Artillery travelling orchestra, which he conducted. His musical talks to the troops led him to meet his future wife, whom he married in 1944.