Robin Fletcher

Summary

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
Bronze medal – third place 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 edit

  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.

External links edit

  • Robin Fletcher at Olympedia 
  • Robin Fletcher at Team GB 
  • Fletcher's profile at databaseOlympics
Academic offices
Preceded by Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford
1980–1989
Succeeded by