Robin Fletcher

Robin Anthony Fletcher OBE DSC (30 May 1922 15 January 2016)[1] was a British academic administrator, and a British field hockey player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the British field hockey team which won the bronze medal. He played all three matches as forward.

Olympic medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  United Kingdom
1952 Helsinki Team competition

Fletcher was a scholar of modern Greek who was a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, from 1950 to 1989, and later became an emeritus Fellow. Between 1951 and 1974 he combined the position of Domestic Bursar with a university lectureship in modern Greek.[2] From 1980 to 1989 he served as Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, responsible for the running of the Rhodes Scholarship. His memoirs, A Favouring Wind: A passage within and without academia, were published in 2007. His wife Jinny died in July 2010.[3] Portraits of Fletcher hang in Rhodes House, Oxford, and Trinity College, Oxford.[4]

References

  1. "Obituaries - The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2016. "Rhodes Scholars pay tribute to Warden Robin Fletcher - the Rhodes Scholarships". Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  2. https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/robin-fletcher/ Oneltd. "Trinity College – Fellows and College Officers". Trinity.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  3. "Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  4. "Your Paintings : Robin Fletcher (b.1922)". Art UK. Retrieved 1 February 2016.


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