Also, he proposed to his pupil Rebecca Clarke, which is believed to have led to her father"s withdrawing her from that institution and enrolling her in the Royal College of instead (she later studied composition with Charles Villiers Stanford, and viola with Tertis).
Among his students at the Royal Academy of (she studied there from 1903 to 1905) was Rebecca Clarke, and among Miles" associates was Lionel Tertis.
Miles is credited with having given Tertis the idea of taking up the viola as an instrument. He appeared several times in The al Times in the late 1890s performing works of others and at least once his own also. There is a record of Miles" taking a trip to Australia during which he helped preside over examinations on behalf of the Random Access Memory and the Royal College of both.
According to a brief biography in one of these articles in 1899, he won the first Sauret prize in 1897, the Hine Exhibition composition prize in 1893, the MacFarren Scholarship (Walter or George Alexander?) in 1896 (awarded 8 January 1896) and the Charles Lucas Medal in mid summer 1898, as well as the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1899. In 1896 he received a silver medal (presented annually to the most distinguished student at the Royal Academy of, the Royal College of, or the Guildhall School of, in rotation, the recipient nominated by the principal or director of the schoolexplanation on p 107, see note) from the Worshipful Company of ians. Won a silver medal in a competition about 1905.
