Draft:Robert H. Illing

Dr. Robert H. Illing (August 16, 1917 - July 27, 1999) was an Australian composer, musicologist, and music professor.

Born to parents Robert William Illing and Ida Illing in London, England, he was baptised on September 9, 1917 in the Parish of St. Matthew's, Bayswater. He had two younger siblings, Harry Charles Illing (1920-2011) and Mary Illing (1924-1927).

He studied at the University of Cambridge from 1935 to 1939. In 1939, he was a schoolmaster. He married Margaret Jane Williams, an American woman, in Ludlow, Shropshire in January 1944, and had a daughter, soprano Rosamund Illing. From 1958 to 1961, he studied at the University of Nottingham. Illing, his wife, and his daughter moved from Oxford, England to Adelaide, South Australia in 1966. He was a professor of music and head of the Music Department at Flinders University in Adelaide from 1966 until the department's 1983 closure, and was a senior lecturer in Music History and Musicology.

Some works he composed include Gradatim (1982), Five Australian Bird Songs (1985), and Salve Mater (1985).