Robin Fletcher

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

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.

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 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-02-01. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  2. ↑ https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/robin-fletcher/ Oneltd. "Trinity College – Fellows and College Officers". Trinity.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  3. ↑ "Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  4. ↑ "Your Paintings : Robin Fletcher (b.1922)". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Sir Edgar Williams		 Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford
1980–1989		 Succeeded by
Sir Anthony Kenny


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